[102377] in RedHat Linux List
Re: parsing text files - take a look at "cut"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Wed Dec 2 17:02:12 1998
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 15:50:25 CST."
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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 13:58:51 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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brown@ftms.COM said:
> >Just thought you guys might like to know the solution I came >up
> with. I just piped the output to > > nawk '{print $1}' > >and that
> command filtered out the 1st column. Replace $1 with $2 to get >the
> 2nd column and so on. >-Ed
> Won't work. Each and every space acts as a column separator, which
> means that the first "human" column, which contains the person's
> name, can have more than one name there. So that means that $2 could
> be the person's first or last name (depending if the file is first
> last or last, first). If there is a third part of the person's name,
> the address column may not start until $4, instead of $3.
> MB
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