Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:00:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, SigmaX asdf <fydernix@gmail.com> Subject: Re: sed and comma-delimited file Message-ID: <20060922170057.GA70779@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060922065915.GA77932@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <c04d7e300609190926t1e5dce14wea7ef1a16ccf9af1@mail.gmail.com> <54894.192.168.0.10.1158706436.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> <002101c6dc46$470b1d50$0000fea9@gsicomp.on.ca> <20060922065915.GA77932@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:59:15AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:49:42PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:
>
> > > cat file | awk -F"," '{ printf "%s,%s,%s,%s,%s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5 }' >
> > > newfile
> >
> > What's wrong with this?
> >
> > cat file | cut -f-5 -c';' > newfile
>
> Both commands suffer badly from useless use of cat(1) ;-))
>
> See
> http://sial.org/howto/shell/useless-cat/
>
> for one of the dozens of explanations on the web.
>
I think the entire group of *nix users would benefit from
having a list of these kind of links. bRief tutorials
(that I have long since lost, BTW) on awk and sed, along
with things-related.
much else.
I'm saving all URL's, thanks ;-)
gary
> SCNR,
> Patrick
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