[TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file

[R Radford]

I am late to the party, but did read each of the examples.  In addition to
cut being a very simple and elegant solution to the problem, the author of
that solution also avoided using cat to read in the file and saved another
process and a pipe.

For example:

    cut -c40- < filename.txt

is better than:

    cat filename.txt | cut -c40-

The same could be done to each of the examples above.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for everyone's suggestions. It is awesome the amount of knowledge
> out there and the willingness to share/help.
>
> As was mentioned, cut in this instance was the easiest and fastest for me
> to just get the task done. Other tools may be more powerful, but I find it
> hard to understand REGEX and it just doesn't stick in this old mind.
>
> I did learn a lot from this exchange and hope to keep the knowledge
> accessible in the brain (if not, I'm keeping this e-mail in archive :))
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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