hello,
i have a file which is having on each line of this format:
loginname:name (roll no.)
no i want to extract loginname from it and it can be done by setting field
separator as ":" then i can use cut -f 1, but the problem is that i don't
know how to set field separator;
Please help
Thanx
KONARK
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