[nflug] You qualify as a Dinosaur if ...

[David J. Andruczyk]

Instead of that vi line, I'd just have used:
cat file | cut -f 2- -d" " > newfile


--- Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:36 -0700, Robert Meyer
> wrote:
> > ... the following: :1,$s/^\([0-9]*\)\( \)/\2\1/  
> Now a *real*
> > dinosaur can explain just exactly what that did.
> 
> Hmm, sounds like a challenge to me... :-)
> 
> If a line begins with a number (any number of
> digits) followed by a
> space "tag" the number as the-first-thing-tagged and
> the space as
> the-second-thing-tagged.  Substitute for that whole
> pattern
> the-second-thing-tagged (space) followed by
> the-first-thing-tagged
> (number) on lines numbered 1 through
> however-many-lines-are-in-file.
> 
> I don't usually demo tagging in vi(1) for the
> sys-admin class (I usually
> use grep(1) for that) but I do demo line editing by
> asking them how long
> it would take them to take a copy of /etc/passwd and
> then edit it so
> that it only contained the usernames one per line in
> <insert-your-favorite-PC-editor>.  Then I show them
> what vi(1) does when
> you type in:
> 
> 	:1,$ s/:.*//
> 
> while editing a copy of the passwd file.  :-)
> 
> -- 
>                                                 Ken
> Smith
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-- David J. Andruczyk

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