Re: [SLUG] Script needed

["Aussie" <aussie@nospam.aussie.mine.nu>]

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On 1 Jun 00, at 15:08, Tony Cook wrote:

> If you're going to use perl:
> 
> perl -F: -anle 'print $F[0]' </etc/passwd
> 
> but I like the cut solution best.
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> 
> > perl -e 'print grep { s/^(\w+)\:.*$/$1/; 1; } <>' < inputfile >
> > outputfile

*NIX - You find one way of doing something and after you've done it 
find out there are another 15 ways to perform the same task.
Windows - You find 16 ways of performing the same task and then find 
out that none of those actually perform the task and you have to find 
another way.

:-)

Aussie

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