Information about the package, fex, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fex package is designed for, Field split/extraction like cut/awk.
Package Name:
fex
Summary:
Field split/extraction like cut/awk
Description:
Fex is a powerful field extraction tool. Fex provides a very concise language for tokenizing strings and extracting fields.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.0
Release:
1.el6
Size:
13 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the fex package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install fex
This command will install fex on the server.
yum remove fex
This command will un-install fex on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fex, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove fex
This command will un-install fex on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fex when using the -y flag.
yum update fex
This command will update fex to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fex, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update fex
This command will update fex to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fex when using the -y flag.
yum info fex
This command will show you core information about the fex package.
yum deplist fex
This command will show you the dependencies for fex. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update fex
This command will check if there is an update waiting on fex. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.