On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> 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 I don't see that anyone has mentioned 'cut': cut -d, -f2,4,57,59,61 $csvfile |grep @ -- Hal