[Gllug] Utility to pull fields from lines of a file

Mark Williams mark.666 at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Apr 17 06:45:23 UTC 2008


Nix wrote:
> On 15 Apr 2008, John Winters told this:
> 
>> I think I had much the same problem.  I could remember "split", but I 
>> couldn't remember "cut".
> 
> And then there are the ones that nobody uses, join(1) and paste(1). (I
> found a use for paste(1) the other day. I feel proud, yet somehow
> dirty.)
> 

I didn't know about that one - the amount of times I've done that* the
hard way... :(

Thanks!

Mark

* Used oocalc where paste would have done, for example...

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