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Subject: Re: sed and comma-delimited file
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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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