[plug] Manipulating a text file

[Earnshaw, Mike]

many thanks!

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#Subject: Re: [plug] Manipulating a text file
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#On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:
#> I am having trouble extracting the first columns of our 
#passwd file into
#> another file ...
#> mike:x:500:500 ....
#cut -d: -f1
#cuts the first field with ":" as the field delimiter.
#Is that what you want?
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#-Greg
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