Dear sirs, I don't want to notify a bug, but just a suggestion. I am working constantly with tables formatted as fields separated by spaces (one or more). It would be very useful a utility to extract fields from that databse. As an example of one of my databases: UCM1348+2147 1.6972e-13 0 9.7137e-14 0 UCM1349+2151 5.7044e-14 0 1.5181e-14 0 UCM1349+2152 2.1981e-14 0 6.5993e-14 0 UCM1416+2202 7.894243e-16 3.6509e-14 7.198072e-16 2.345e-15 It is not easy to extract just one field. I have tried cut, but the delimiter can just be -d ' ', not several spaces. A better workaround, an easy script, the first argument being the file and the second the field to extract: #!/bin/csh -f join $1 $1 -o 1.$2 Would it be possible to create an utility with the ability to extract several fields from a file? I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask for this.. Thanks any way Cesar Enrique -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo Tf: (34) 91-394-45-77 Fax: (34) 91-394-46-35 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. Astrofisica // Fac CC Fisicas Universidad Complutense // 28040 Madrid (Spain) -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
