hi,
is it possible to read the first word of every line of a file from the terminal, and if its possible whats the command?
for example i have:
John Locke
Daniel Faraday
and I want to display only John and Daniel
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Not only is it possible, it’s easy:
awk ‘{print $1}’ /path/to/the/file.txt
Good luck.
65daysofstatic wrote:
> hi,
> is it possible to read the first word of every line of a file from the
> terminal, and if its possible whats the command?
>
> for example i have:
> John Locke
> Daniel Faraday
>
> and I want to display only John and Daniel
>
>
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And because I like multiple methods, and this is a good teaching moment:
cut -d ’ ’ -f 1 /path/to/the/file.txt
Note that both of these simply split on the first step and likely will
not take quotes into account.
Good luck.
ab@novell.com wrote:
> Not only is it possible, it’s easy:
>
> awk ‘{print $1}’ /path/to/the/file.txt
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
>
>
> 65daysofstatic wrote:
>> hi,
>> is it possible to read the first word of every line of a file from the
>> terminal, and if its possible whats the command?
>
>> for example i have:
>> John Locke
>> Daniel Faraday
>
>> and I want to display only John and Daniel
>
>
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thank you man… I’m new to the commands in Unix/linux .
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My pleasure… everybody needs to start somewhere. The command line in
*nix is very powerful… definitely one of my favorite parts.
Good luck.
65daysofstatic wrote:
> thank you man… I’m new to the commands in Unix/linux .
>
>
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