On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:54:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > uid=`echo $i | sed -e "s/[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^:]*\).*/\1/"` > > > Someone make me feel embarassed by posting a much more beautiful script. > > At the very least, replace those sed lines with awk or something. It > > should be much easier to say "grab the first and third field split by > > :'s" than that ugly regexps above. > > cut -d : -f 1,3
And of course
awk -F: '{printf("%s:%s\n",$1,$3)}'
but I like Joey's cut command better.
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