Hi, all!
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:49:42PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> > 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
Both commands suffer badly from useless use of cat(1) ;-))
See
http://sial.org/howto/shell/useless-cat/
for one of the dozens of explanations on the web.
SCNR,
Patrick
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