-d’ ’ tells cut to use the space character as the column/field delimiter.
-f3-4 tells it to only return columns/fields 3 and 4.
>From the man page. (Type “man cut” in Terminal.app for complete info.)
cut -- cut out selected portions of each line of a file.
SYNOPSIS
cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cut utility cuts out selected portions of each line (as specified by
list)
from each file and writes them to the standard output. If no file
arguments are
specified, or a file argument is a single dash (`-'), cut reads from the
standard
input. The items specified by list can be in terms of column position or
in
terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column numbering starts
from
1.
-d delim
Use delim as the field delimiter character instead of the tab
character.
-f list
The list specifies fields, separated in the input by the field
delimiter
character (see the -d option.) Output fields are separated by a
single
occurrence of the field delimiter character.
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Rod
> On Oct 7, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Rod,
>
> What does the line below do?
> cut -d' ' -f3-4
>
> Howard
>
> On Wednesday, 7 October 2020 at 10:11:31 am UTC-4 Rod Buchanan wrote:
>
> Click Text -> Run Unix Command… , then run this:
>
> cut -d' ' -f3-4 | sort | uniq -c
>
> When I copy/paste your data I get these results:
>
> 2 Apple Jones
> 1 Banana Herb
> 4 Harvey Haney
> 2 Sam Blue
>
> --
> Rod
>
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>
>> On Oct 6, 2020, at 1:23 PM, Howard <[email protected]
>> <applewebdata://AFE0D9DF-9AA7-4631-ADA5-5D1BC8365B30>> wrote:
>>
>
>> I have the following data (shown below). I want to count how many times each
>> of the four names appear (Harvey Haney, Apple Jones, Banana Herb, Sam Blue).
>> Can this be done in BBEdit? If not, I would appreciate suggestions on how it
>> can be done.
>>
>> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning. How is everyone today?
>> 10:46:08 From Apple Jones : I'm doing good. How are you?
>> 10:46:12 From Banana Herb : Good how are you!
>> 10:46:18 From Sam Blue : I'm doing fine. How are you?
>> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning. How is everyone today?
>> 10:46:08 From Harvey Haney : I'm doing good. How are you?
>> 10:46:12 From Apple Jones : Good how are you!
>> 10:46:18 From Sam Blue : I'm doing fine. How are you?
>> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning.
>>
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