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Everything about Cut (Unix)
Shell command for extracting sections of text files
cut is a shell command that extracts sections from each line of input text — usually from a file. Extraction of line segments can typically be done by bytes (-b), characters (-c), or fields (-f) separated by a delimiter. A range must be provided in each case which consists of one of N, N-M, N-, or -M, where N and M are counted from 1. Since version 6, an error is thrown if you include a zeroth value. Prior to this the value was ignored and assumed to be 1. Wikipedia →
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đź“š Books worth reading
The UNIX operating systemChristian, Kaare, Kaare Christian · 1983
MonoEdd Dumbill, Niel M. Bornstein · 2004
CommodoreBrian Bagnall · 2010
Learning AWK Programming: A fast, and simple cutting-edge utility for text-processing on the Unix-like environmentShiwang Kalkhanda · 2018- 📕Learning AWK ProgrammingShiwang Kalkhanda · 2018
Operating Systems and New TechnologiesGeoff Potter · 2012
A Young Person’s Guide to Information Technology Book TenGeoff Potter · 2014
Genomics and bioinformaticsTore Samuelsson · 2012
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