Scripting Question

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:
> 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 @

Not a good idea if there are embedded commas like ...

12330,,,"Volmer, Robert",,"Rob.Volmer at gardra.com","NY",,,,,,,,,,,,


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Hal