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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Cut fields between delimiters Post 302885398 by Yoda on Saturday 25th of January 2014 07:15:42 PM
Old 01-25-2014
No need to pipe output through so many commands, you could do the whole thing in sed:
Code:
sed 's#:.*:#:#' file

 

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