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Re: parsing text files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Wed Dec 2 16:02:17 1998
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 14:51:46 CST."
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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 12:58:38 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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brown@ftms.COM said:
>>Is there a unix command that I can use to parse a column of text
>>from a >file? For example, a command that would allow me to parse
>>the column titled address from a file with the following
>>information and output it to another file?
>
>Name Address Town
>bob 123 A st. Somewhere
>steve 123 B st. Somewhere
>joe 123 C st. Somewhere
>gloria 123 D st. Somewhere
> I'm not sure what a list of street names would do for you without the
> city the street is in, but, no, there isn't a simple program with a
> simple set of options that will extract that info. At least, not
> that I know of.
Try "man cut". I think it will do what is desired here.
Best
rickf
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