How to find the first field from a file in Bash Shell

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I have a huge file on the Linux server. I want to find the first field from that file. How can I do that in Bash shell?
Oct 20, 2020 in Linux Administration by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You can extract text from a file. In Linux, you can find the cut command. In this command, you can pass -f as a field as shown below.

$ cat data.csv | cut -d ',' -f 1
answered Oct 20, 2020 by MD
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