Ubuntu-Chicago OT: sed and tab-delimited file

[Eric O'Neal]

Yo;

I have a series of comma-delimited text files with fourteen columns of data
and several 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?

SigmaX

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