Instead of doing grep 'plover' blah.log | cut -d ' ' -f 11 I usually do awk '/plover/{print $11}' blah.log Less typing, but probably not as easy to

Instead of doing grep 'plover' blah.log | cut -d ' ' -f 11 I usually do awk '/plover/{print $11}' blah.log Less typing, but probably not as easy to understand.