how about
cat <textfile> | awk -F" " '{print $1}'
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 18:00, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> I have a text file in the format
>
> Full name [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> It's a pretty long list of names and I want to remove all the email
> addresses from the file. I basically want to be left with a file with
> only the names of the persons, one on each line.
>
> I tried :s [EMAIL PROTECTED] //g in vim but it did not work. It says
> E59: invalid charcter after \@
>
> how can I do this ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Sharukh.
> --
> Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
> Mumbai, India.
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