Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:49:15 +0100 From: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.f2s.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed and comma-delimited file Message-ID: <20060919164915.GA23496@ariel.njm.f2s.com> In-Reply-To: <c04d7e300609190926t1e5dce14wea7ef1a16ccf9af1@mail.gmail.com> References: <c04d7e300609190926t1e5dce14wea7ef1a16ccf9af1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue 19 Sep 12:26, SigmaX asdf wrote:
> 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
Cheers,
Nick.
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