On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:34:29PM -0800, Varghees Samraj wrote:
> You are rite when you use it for only one field. But awk is more powerful
> than cut. I just gave you an example to do that.
>
No question that you're right about awk being FAR more powerful than
cut. (Although actually, you can do multiple fields with cut, too,
e.g., cut -d : -f 1,7 /etc/passwd which would give you, in FreeBSD, the
user name and shell.
I suspect you're very good at awk. I think if I were better at using
awk, I'd probably not even think about cut. Since I'm not good at awk
though, I tend to use cut when I can. :)
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