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[Tracy3e]

Is there a way to cut up a file based on a word that is found in each line? I know you can cut on field position or delimeters but the only thing that is standard in this file is this one word that I'd like to base the cut on.

Or another similar command to cut?

Thanks

 

[zeland]

I hope you mean cut as in the cut utility. You can pass the file through sed and replace the word into a single character delimiter then use cut.

e.g:
cat some_file | sed s/some_word/#/g | cut --delimiter="#" -f some_column


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