{"id":28,"date":"2019-05-01T04:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T09:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codeblock.supadupa.rocks\/?p=28"},"modified":"2020-09-08T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T18:29:07","slug":"cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>\n
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There’s no way to cut<\/strong> it<\/strong> when it comes to telling you how to use this great tool!

Whenever I’ve used it, I commonly use it in lieu of a user’s home directory:
$(pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f5)<\/code>. This helps me save time from copy and pasting the install name, however it doesn’t always work.
For example, if we’re not in \/path\/to\/live\/SITE<\/code> or \/path\/to\/log\/SITE<\/code> then cut can’t grab the appropriate path. Let me break it down by first running pwd.<\/code>
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spencer@local:\/nas\/content\/live\/dubtraxx\/wp-content\/themes\/minimum-pro$ pwd\n\/nas\/content\/live\/dubtraxx\/wp-content\/themes\/minimum-pro<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
We see that it’s printing<\/code> the  working directory<\/code>, all the way up to the directory we’re in. PWD is just printing the folder I’m currently in, including the server’s absolute path. Whenever you include the -d<\/code> you’re telling pwd<\/code> that you want to use \/<\/code> as your delimiter (separator). 
However, since \/<\/code>is a special character in Linux’s bash shell, we need to escape it by adding a backslash \\<\/code>. 

On this note, it’s also perfectly acceptable to use -d'\/'<\/code> instead of a \\<\/code> to signal the delimiter of choice to cut<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s take a look at what happens if we run the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
spencer@local~ :\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx $ pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f2\npath\nspencer@local~ :\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx $ pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f3\nto\nspencer@local~ :\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx $ pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f4\nlive\nspencer@local~ :\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx $ pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f5\ndubtraxx\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
And for some testing…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
spencer@local~ :\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx $ pwd | cut -d'\/' -f4-\nlive\/dubtraxx\nspencer@local~ :\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx $ pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f2-\npath\/to\/live\/dubtraxx\nspencer@local~ :\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx $ pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f1\n\nspencer@local~ :\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx $ pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f1-\n\/path\/to\/live\/dubtraxx<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
There are many more uses for cut, but we’ll go over those in another tutorial. 
Ciao! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reading Time: <\/span>  < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>There’s no way to cut it when it comes to telling you how to use this great tool! Whenever I’ve used it, I commonly use it in lieu of a user’s home directory: $(pwd | cut -d\\\/ -f5). This helps me save time from copy and pasting the install name, however it doesn’t always work. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-command-line-tutorials"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/client35.dev\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}