Ubuntu-Chicago OT: sed and tab-delimited file

[Max Luebbe]

I'll bust out the ol' UNIX book after I get back from the sox game
tonight.

Meanwhile, check out the man page for cut.
Using that in a bash script could do this pretty easy.

-Max

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:11 -0500, Mike Greenwood wrote:
> 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:
>         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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