On Tue, September 19, 2006 4:49 pm, Matt Emmerton wrote:
>> On Tue, September 19, 2006 9:26 am, SigmaX asdf wrote:
>>> 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?
>> 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
[shrug] It uses cut, which I've never used or even heard of??? :)
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Freddie Cash
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