Re: [SLUG] Script needed

[Rodos <rodos@nospam.haywood.org>]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Adam Kennedy wrote:

> perl -e 'print grep { s/^(\w+)\:.*$/$1/; 1; } <>' < inputfile > outputfile

or

perl -F: -ane 'print "$F[0]\n";' < inputfile > outputfile

Lets hope this does not turn into an obfcated (sp?) contest. Awk is better
at this problem. As Larry says, awk has to be better at something.

Rodos

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