sed and comma-delimited file

[Matt Emmerton]

> On Tue, September 19, 2006 9:26 am, SigmaX asdf wrote:
> > I have a series of comma-delimited text files with fourteen columns
> > of data and several hundred rows.  I want to use a short shell script
> > to strip them of the last 9 columns, leaving the same file but with
> > just five of its columns.  I can do it in C++, but that seems like
> > overkill.  How would I go about doing it with sed or a similar
> > utility?
> 
> cat file | awk -F"," '{ printf "%s,%s,%s,%s,%s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5  }' >
> newfile

What's wrong with this?

cat file | cut -f-5 -c';' > newfile

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Matt Emmerton