I don't have the answer to that but I'd like to know it also....<br>even the C++ solution<br><br>mike<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric O'Neal</b> <<a href="mailto:fyedernoggersnodden@gmail.com">
fyedernoggersnodden@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Yo;<br><br>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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