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useless use of cat and added some information what the command does

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You can do this by piping the text through awk

cat input.txt | awk '{print $1}' input.txt

This prints out the first entry of every line (entries are separated with spaces).

You can do this by piping the text through awk

cat input.txt | awk '{print $1}'

You can do this by piping the text through awk

awk '{print $1}' input.txt

This prints out the first entry of every line (entries are separated with spaces).

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answered Nov 2, 2012 at 20:46

You can do this by piping the text through awk

cat input.txt | awk '{print $1}'