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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading first column of file which start with space also Post 302838187 by ryandegreat25 on Monday 29th of July 2013 05:26:13 AM
Old 07-29-2013
cut will treat every space delimiter as separate column. so eliminating the spaces and aligning the output will be good with cut. awk will be able to handle task like this easily.
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