[plug] Manipulating a text file

[Earnshaw, Mike]

Many thanks!

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#From: Jason Nicholls [mailto:jason at mindsocket.com.au]
#Sent: Monday, 5 February 2001 5:24 PM
#To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
#Subject: Re: [plug] Manipulating a text file
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#Hi,
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#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
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#Later,
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