"SigmaX asdf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Uh.. is there no reason the cut(1) program doesn't do this? #!/bin/sh cat file | cut -d',' -f1-5 > /tmp/t.$$ rm -f file mv /tmp/t.$$ file This doesn't preserve permissions, etc... but - it's pretty straight-forward. - Dave Rivers - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"