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Subject: sed and comma-delimited file
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Yo;

I have a series of comma-delimited text files with fourteen columns of
data and several hundred rows.  I want to use a short shell script to
strip them of the last 9 columns, leaving the same file but with just
five of its columns.  I can do it in C++, but that seems like
overkill.  How would I go about doing it with sed or a similar
utility?

SigmaX