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From: EPRF%SNYCENVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Peter Flass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: cut.c
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Date: 12 Jan 90 19:16:24 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Jan 90 19:33:20 GMT Paul Allen said:
>In article <5067@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>>
>>I treid using cut yesterday to extract the third column from a crc listing
>>like this:
>>
>>65261   8510 alloc.c
>>09176   7432 break.c
>>53152    990 const.h
>>
>>I could not find any combination of -d and -i flags to convince it to consider
>>a run of spaces as a separator.  I eventually did it with columns, but I
>>think it ought to work with fields as well.  Does anyone (e.g., the author)
>>know how to do this?
>
Doesn't help with cut, but I use Mined to replace .*<space> with
<nothing>, where <space> is a single blank and <nothing> is a carriage
return to indicate a null replacement.
      - Pete


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