Comments on: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX

By: Anu

Anu — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:37:04 +0000

ps -ef | head | awk ‘{print $2}’
This combination was very useful.. I was struggling with grep to do this since i had not used awk…

By: Jerobadi

Jerobadi — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:20:00 +0000

Apr 14 12:15 110414060000.ca_P_STARCOB_CA_837I.nr
Apr 14 10:56 ACH_WCF_CTRL.tbl
Apr 14 10:37 110413220000.ca_P_PR_HC_837P.nr
Apr 14 08:14 dont_delete
Apr 12 11:48 trigger
Apr 11 07:40 Mail
Apr 01 11:36 directory_names.txt
Apr 01 11:34 presence_files.sh
Feb 28 06:08 monitor_va088.pl
Feb 28 06:07 monitor_l1l2.pl

i wanted to list the files for the dates that range between Apr 01 – Apr 12. could someone help??

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:04:00 +0000

Did you know that if you press Alt while selecting with the mouse you can also select a block of text?

By: Itismike

Itismike — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:20:00 +0000

cat infile | cut -f 2,4 > outfile

By: Khushbooshah

Khushbooshah — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:38:00 +0000

i have 5 columns in file…i want to display only 2,4 column in one single command. hw to do tht