Comments on: A couple of useful scripts http://blog.orenblog.org/2009/11/12/a-couple-of-useful-scripts/ This is where you say something clever Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:48:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Oren http://blog.orenblog.org/2009/11/12/a-couple-of-useful-scripts/#comment-902 Oren Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:46:10 +0000 http://blog.orenblog.org/?p=2482#comment-902 And here's another one - this one outputs the first and last fields of every line (fields delimited by a space character). Useful for stripping middle names from the class list file. <code> awk -F" " '{print $1, $NF}' </code> And here’s another one – this one outputs the first and last fields of every line (fields delimited by a space character). Useful for stripping middle names from the class list file.


awk -F" " '{print $1, $NF}'

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