On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 21:40, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John W. Krahn wrote:
>>
>> Why not just:
>>
>> ipaddy=`awk '{ print $1 }' ipin.txt`
>>
>> But that still doesn't get you a comma-separated list.
>
> Erm, a Perl list?
>
> Rob
Hey, if you throw an @ in front of ipaddy you get a Perl list.
But I think the answer that is really wanted is
ipaddy=$(perl -lne 'push @a, (split)[0];END {print join ",", @a}'
file_with_the_data);
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