Conclusion Linux’s command-line text-processing tools— awk, cut, and paste —are essential for anyone who works with large amounts of structured data. Whether you're extracting specific fields, ...

Copying and pasting is one of the most used actions on a computer. While it is easy to do so with the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V keyboard shortcuts, on the Linux terminal it is not so straightforward. You ...

The cut command offers many ways to extract portions of each line from a text file. It's similar to awk in some ways, but it has its own advantages and quirks.

Discover how the xclip command can let you easily copy and paste file content to your clipboard - no mouse required.

Lawrence 'Larry' Tesler, from New York, the pioneering computer scientist who invented the cut, copy and paste commands for computers has died.

It's such a simple operation, you'd think everyone already knows how to copy, cut, and paste. But my father has asked me how to do this several times, ...

It was thanks to his innovations - which included the "cut", "copy" and "paste" commands - that the personal computer became simple to learn and use.