sed and comma-delimited file

Thu Sep 21 23:59:23 PDT 2006

Hi, all!

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:49:42PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:

> > 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

Both commands suffer badly from useless use of cat(1) ;-))

See
	http://sial.org/howto/shell/useless-cat/

for one of the dozens of explanations on the web.

SCNR,
Patrick
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