On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:26:54PM -0400, SigmaX asdf wrote: > Yo; > > 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?
See cut(1): cut -d, -f1,2,3,4,5 -- Brooks
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