At 11:45 AM -0700 6/14/07, Philip Aker wrote:
>On 2007-06-14, at 01:56:04, Emmanuel wrote:
>
>>At 9:49 PM -0300 6/13/07, Bill Briggs wrote:
>
>>>>>Well, I've got a tab delimited file and want to get one of the columns from it. I'm betting that even with the Satimage osax you can't get more terse than this:
>>>>
>>>>>awk '{ FS = " " } ; {print $3}' b.txt > c.txt
>>>>
>>>>Betting how much?
>>>>
>>>>cut -f 3 < b.txt > c.txt
>>>>
>>>>:-)
>>>
>>>Okay. That's terser.
>>
>>Terseness vs legibility ...
>
>>extractcolumn 3 from f -- uses Satimage osax
>
>That's a canard Emmanuel,
For Emmanuel that would be a "duck". :-D
- web
(canards head to avoid thrown objects)
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