Ubuntu-Chicago OT: sed and tab-delimited file

[Eric O'Neal]

Got it.  Thanx for the pointer.

$ cut -f 1-5 -d , -s input.txt > output.txt

Nice one liner!  Beats my relatively gargantuan pair of for loops in C++ ;-)
(One to read and one to write).

SigmaX

On 9/19/06, Max Luebbe <max.luebbe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> >         SigmaX
> >
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