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# 1  
Old 07-12-2011
Find all chars before .
Howdy,

I need a command which will find all of the characters in a line before the first .

I am using Korn

Thank you
# 2  
Old 07-12-2011
Code:
cut -d. -f1 infile

# 3  
Old 07-12-2011
Or:
Code:
while read line; do echo ${line%%.*}; done < file

# 4  
Old 07-12-2011
Code:
awk -F . '{print $1}' infile

 
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