Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!erbe.se!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: getting a field from a line in awk/sed/? Message-ID: <1991Jan15.134743.27282@erbe.se> Date: 15 Jan 91 13:47:43 GMT References: <1991Jan9.162817.17038@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1991Jan9.225344.19979@informix.com> <1991Jan10.025736.17005@convex.com> Sender: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden Lines: 18 In article <1991Jan10.025736.17005@convex.com>, tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: |> From the keyboard of dberg@informix.com (David I. Berg): |> :Use cut. |> % cut |> cut: Command not found. Ah, but it is in real UNIX(tm), you know the one that comes from AT&T and that says "System V" or something like that on the box (I've always wondered what that "V" stands for -- "System Varies", perhaps?). -- Robert Claeson |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB | Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se Jakobsberg, Sweden | Perverse mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@encore.com Any opinions expressed herein definitely belongs to me and not to my employer.