Select sections of text from each line of files in a Bash shell

Question

Hi Team,

I have one CSV file. I want to extract some text from each line. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

There is no inbuild command available for your requirement. But you can create your own customized command. To select some texts from a file, you can use the cut command as shown below.

$ cat data.csv | cut -c 1-6
System
569,Ha
570,Ha
571,Ha
572,Ha