A number of commands available for finding positions that you want in a line and extracting only a certain amount of text can be pretty cumbersome in terms of learning curve. This isn’t to say that once you get the hang of them that they’re terribly complicated but it can take a little while to get the hang of them. And when you need something fast, you might want an easy command for extracting text from lines. In these cases, consider cut. The cut command doesn’t do regular expressions (I guess you could argue that its ability to use a delimiter can be used as a regular expression) and so…
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Finding Things on Mac OS X
Mac OS X has a number of commands that will help you find things. There’s find, grep and way more. But the easiest of them all to use is locate. To run locate simply type the word locate from within terminal followed by the case sensitive string of what you are looking for. For example, if you want to find all files with the word Krypted in the name use the following command: locate Krypted Keep in mind when using the locate command that it will also find files that have the name in the path, so if I have a folder called Krypted, every single file in that folder…