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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: "cut" needed to run CC
Summary: there is a real cut in the sources archives ...
Message-ID: <6844@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 20 Sep 88 00:08:20 GMT
References: <990@acornrc.UUCP> <486@poseidon.UUCP> <911@riddle.UUCP> <599@white.gcm>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: HASA, "S" Division
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In article <599@white.gcm> dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell) writes:
| In article <911@riddle.UUCP> domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
| >>'cut' selects character-columns (-c) or tab-separated fields (-f) from the
| >>named files or stdin, and copies the result to stdout.  e.g.
| >>echo "How are you today" | cut -d" " -f1,3
| >>will yield "How you". (the -d overrides the separator character).
| >>
| This is a version someone else wrote, but I believe it works, or is at
| lesat a good start.

there is a full blown cut and paste entry in thr comp.sources.unix
archives.  the item is volume 8, issue 78.

it should be available from your nearest comp.sources.unix archive
site.
-- 
John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

    "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."
                -- Norm Schryer