I saw once a quick and dirty Perl implementation for the cut and paste linux commands. It was something like
perl 'print "$F1"' filename
to substitute a cut -f1 filename command
Can someone tell me how was this Perl way? Specifically, I'm interested because this, unlike cut/paste, will work the same also in Windows environments.
Best Answer
cut
To give a custom input separator,
To change the output separator,
To
grep
while you're at it,paste
Not quite as easy.