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- From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
- Subject: Re: Is there a "cut" command available for the NeXT ???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.142738.11686@black.toppoint.de>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:27:38 GMT
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- In <28333@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
- >I think "copy" might be what you are looking for.
-
- He isn't looking for copy. There is a "cut" command in System V
- UNIX with the following semantics:
-
- black> mahaki man cut | col -bf | uniq
-
- CUT(1) INTERACTIVE UNIX System CUT(1)
-
- NAME
- cut - cut out selected fields of each line of a file
-
- SYNOPSIS
- cut -clist [file ...]
- cut -flist [-dchar] [-s] [file ...]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Use cut to cut out columns from a table or fields from each
- line of a file; in data base parlance, it implements the
- projection of a relation. The fields as specified by list
- can be fixed length, i.e., character positions as on a
- punched card (-c option), or the length can vary from line
- to line and be marked with a field delimiter character like
- tab (-f option). cut can be used as a filter; if no files
- are given, the standard input is used. In addition, a file
- name of ``-'' explicitly refers to standard input.
- [ ... ]
- black>
-
- Kristian
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