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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:39:43 +0200
From:      Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-freebsd-stable@biaix.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sed and comma-delimited file
Message-ID:  <20060919163943.GA50813@grummit.biaix.org>
In-Reply-To: <c04d7e300609190926t1e5dce14wea7ef1a16ccf9af1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <c04d7e300609190926t1e5dce14wea7ef1a16ccf9af1@mail.gmail.com>

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* SigmaX asdf <fydernix@gmail.com> [20060919 18:31]:
> 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?

cut -d ',' -f 1-5

qvb
-- 
pica



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