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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: getting a field from a line in awk/sed/?
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.025736.17005@convex.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 02:57:36 GMT
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From the keyboard of dberg@informix.com (David I. Berg):
:In article <1991Jan9.162817.17038@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> snk@bae.bae.bellcore.com (Samuel N Kamens) writes:

:>The question I had was, how can I use UNIX tools to 
:>get one field out of a line?

:Use cut. 

% cut
cut: Command not found.
% awk
awk: Usage: awk [-fc] [-f source | 'cmds'] [files]

--tom