Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:35:51 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: SigmaX asdf <fydernix@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed and comma-delimited file Message-ID: <20060919163551.GB52635@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <c04d7e300609190926t1e5dce14wea7ef1a16ccf9af1@mail.gmail.com> References: <c04d7e300609190926t1e5dce14wea7ef1a16ccf9af1@mail.gmail.com>
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--dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:26:54PM -0400, SigmaX asdf wrote: > Yo; >=20 > 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? See cut(1): cut -d, -f1,2,3,4,5 -- Brooks --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFEBxmXY6L6fI4GtQRArYeAJ0X2xtonmVoAF+478VJl0Wj6gx7TwCgoufr O4SZHaq9a/J4e/qLsSBdq58= =uRVl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg--
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