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Grep | cut not finishing process

I'm trying to parse some text from a text file in Linux using the following command:

grep "x" | cut -d ":" -f 2 EthernetData1.txt

Everything seems to be working fine as in the display I can see the expected result but the process does not finish so I can't execute another command without clicking [Ctrl + c].

The file is quite big but the proccess seems to reach the end of it.

Any suggestion?

Thank you.

Solution

  • I think you mean

    grep "x" EthernetData1.txt | cut ...

    i.e. you need to give your input file to grep not cut.