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putting a line in a filename (with sed)

"How can I cut a line from a file and paste the rest into a file whose title is the line I just cut?"

If you find yourself asking yourself this question with any degree of regularity, you may have issues. Luckily for you, the help you so desperately need …

learning hangul(한글)

Hang-Cool 1

The Korean alphabet (Hangul) is - so far - my favourite writing system. It is logical and efficient. It pleases my sense of style. Since starting this post over a month ago I took up learning Mandarin so my feelings towards Hanzi are liable to threaten Hangul's dominance in the future, but …

man cut and other simple yet useful unix bits

Instead of just reading the man file, you could read this post about cut!

Printing columns ('fields') n to m (inclusive) from a file:

    cut -d [delimiter] -f n-m filename

Thus, removing the first n-1 fields from a file:

    cut -d [delimiter] -f n- filename

[delimiter] is automatically a …