Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:04:19 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 416

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Saturday 09 October 2004
 Number  416
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  cut and paste : Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>


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Date:  Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:33:28 -0700
From:  "Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
Subject:  Re:  cut and paste

In <20041008102846.L82 at warpix.org>, on 10/08/04 
   at 10:28 AM, John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org> said:


>Is anyone familiar with the Unix utilities CUT and PASTE?

A few of us are. :-)

> to create a third. But, I just wondered if there was any way of doing
>the  whole thing on one line using pipes without creating any
>intermediate  files...

You can use paste for this.  Something like:

  cut -c1,2 <file1 | paste - file2

will work on most implementations.  Most apps understand - to mean read
stdin.

HTH,

Steven

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