> > Actually, cut or awk are usually the tools you would use for
> > extracting columns from a text file:
> >
Yeah!  Awk rules!

> > cut -d: -f1 < /etc/passwd
> 
> 
> Glad to know something works, but can you explain this command, Does it
> produce a file called cut, from field one?

Cut (display) the first field, using ":" as a delimiter.  Outputs to
STDOUT.

The same, but with Awk love:

cat /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{ print $1 }'



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