This should take care of the spaces as well
cat <textfile> | rev | awk -F" " '{print $1}' | rev
On Monday 15 December 2003 22:56, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Vinayakam Murugan wrote:
> > 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]
>
> That worked the other way around. I was left with the email addresses,
> which is the opposite of what I want.
>
> Sharukh.
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> Mumbai, India. http://www.pavri.net/
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