shellcut

shellcut

The command like cut(1) on the basis of shellwords.

Motivation

• Find rows from access logs of load balancers
  • That logs separated values by spaces but also has quoted values too

Installation

$ go get github.com/mackee/shellcut

Usage

$ cat access_logs.txt | shellcut -f 1-10 -g 1=h2

• -f - indices on a field for output. 1-origin.
  • -f 1,2,3 output first to third field on row
  • -f 1-10 output first to 10th field on row
  • -f - print all fields
• -g - filter row by field value
  • -g 10=foobar output matched rows that 10th field is foobar

See also

• mattn/go-shellwords