Lazily trying to paste a long list of strings into python, which means I need things wrapped in quotes (and commas, but I'm excluding them from this example cause they're easy). Grabbing the strings from a file using awk, but since quotes (apostrophes) are special in awk this messes things …

I try to record useful one-liners for future reference. I forgot to write down what this one does: mv $f ${f##START}.${f%%${f##START}} This awkwardly-timed (time-zone troubles) blog post is atonement for my carelessness. Like all one-liners it looks complicated but is pretty simple. It does this: > f …

"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 …

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 …