Re: [SLUG] Script needed

[Herbert Xu <herbert@nospam.gondor.apana.org.au>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 02:55:18PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> 
> $ cat input | sed -e 's/:.*//' > output

Oh yeah, and for a shell-only (assuming read and echo are builtins which holds
for ash, bash, and most Bourne shells) version:

while read LINE; do
	echo ${LINE%%:*}
done
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