[plug] Manipulating a text file

[Jason Nicholls]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:22:21PM +0800, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:
> I am having trouble extracting the first columns of our passwd file into
> another file ...
> 
> mike:x:500:500 ....

awk -F ':' '{print $1}' < filename


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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