How To Install fex on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fex on Rocky Linux 8. fex is Field split/extraction like cut/awk

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fex on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fex

Fex is a powerful field extraction tool. Fex provides a very concise language for tokenizing strings and extracting fields.

We can use yum or dnf to install fex on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fex.

Install fex on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fex

Install fex on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fex

How To Uninstall fex on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fex package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fex

fex Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/17f12de4f0776017508d4a983b7b030b436176
/usr/share/doc/fex
/usr/share/doc/fex/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/fex/README
/usr/share/man/man1/fex.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fex on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.