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# 1  
Old 07-01-2010
Question Cut the first column in listed files > PERL script
Hi All,

Using this command wc -l *e* > create2.txt i'm getting the following output >>>create2.txt listed output files, my requirement is how to cut the first coloum in all the files mentioned in create2.txt in perl.

Code:
 50 allignment.pl
       3 create.txt
       4 application.txt
       8 exeout.txt
      32 test.txt
      11 test2.txt
       8 test3.txt

Last edited by adaleru; 07-01-2010 at 06:36 AM..
# 2  
Old 07-01-2010
Hi, Try this

Code:
system(" cut -d' ' -f1 create2.txt ");

# 3  
Old 07-01-2010
Try

Code:
$ awk '{ print $1 }' create2.txt

# 4  
Old 07-01-2010
Not working guys. can any one suggest me the PERL script
# 5  
Old 07-01-2010
Code:
$ perl -anle 'print $F[0]' create2.txt

# 6  
Old 07-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by agn
Code:
$ perl -anle 'print $F[0]' create2.txt

Hi ,

Thanks for your reply, however its giving error
# 7  
Old 07-01-2010
Which error? How should the output look like?

Code:
50
3
4
8
32
11
8

or
Code:
 50 
       3 
       4 
       8 
      32 
      11 
       8

or even
Code:
allignment.pl
create.txt
application.txt
exeout.txt
test.txt
test2.txt
test3.txt

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