How To Install fex on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fex on CentOS 7. fex is Field split/extraction like cut/awk

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fex on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fex.

Install fex on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install fex

Install fex on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install fex

How To Uninstall fex on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove fex

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fex on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.