OT: Re: [plug] Manipulating a text file

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Steve Vertigan wrote:

> I haven't got round to learning cut or awk but this is one way to do it
> with perl.
> # perl -F: -ane 'print "$F[0]\n";' /etc/passwd

You can save yourself 4 characters by
perl -F: -lane 'print $F[0]' /etc/passwd

But then again that wasn't the point.


Yours Tony.

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