Scripting Question

Corey Bettenhausen corey at 31415926535.com
Sat Feb 14 03:07:07 UTC 2009


Patton Echols wrote:
> I have a fairly massive flat file, comma delimited, that I want to 
> extract info from.  Specifically, I want to extract the first and last 
[snip]
Check out awk, particularly the -F switch to pluck out the desired 
fields.  The grep for the "@" to make sure the email addresses exist. 
Something like:
awk -F"," '{print $1,$4,$6}' file.txt | grep "@" > out_file.txt
-Corey




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