Ubuntu-Chicago OT: sed and tab-delimited file

[Mike Greenwood]

I don't have the answer to that but I'd like to know it also....
even the C++ solution

mike


On 9/19/06, Eric O'Neal <fyedernoggersnodden at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?
>
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