[KLUG Members] Parsing a large file

[Andrew Eidson]

If there are many columns in a row can you do the following?

cut -c1-10,12,13 > file-x



-----Original Message-----
From: members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org
[mailto:members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:33 PM
To: KLUG
Subject: RE: [KLUG Members] Parsing a large file


It sounds like everyone is trying to over-complicate it with
perl/awk/python when a simple "cut" command will do the job.

> Well.. to lessen the burden it is a simple parse Column1, 2, 3 to file X

cut -c1-3 infile > file-x

> then parse column1, 20,30 to file Y.. 

cut -c1,20,30 infile > file-y

> the program I am going to import these
> files into will not handle the file as a whole..

 - BS


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