That's pretty sweet Cory. Thanks for the brief cut
tutorial as well:

> - cut -f 1 -d : <file>, means print the first
> column, delimited by :

I am an awk user by habit and would usually do an:

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

for this, but cut saves some typing and seems more
logical for these cases where you don't need to do
selective (regex) printing.

Jason


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