----- Original Message ----- From: "David Phillips" <electrum at gmail.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:48 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] migration > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:17:36 -0500, Dan Rue <drue at therub.org> wrote: > > Also, it's easier to use sed or even vim to get the unames out of passwd > > Actually, cut or awk are usually the tools you would use for > extracting columns from a text file: > > cut -d: -f1 < /etc/passwd Glad to know something works, but can you explain this command, Does it produce a file called cut, from field one? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list