[rescue] nudge needed - text mangling advice

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:53:57AM -0600, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> I've got a text file so;
> 
> <snip>
> biz.yahoo.com/p/t/tmas.ob.html">TIMCO
> biz.yahoo.com/p/t/tgi.html">Triumph
> biz.yahoo.com/p/u/udi.html">United
> biz.yahoo.com/p/u/uic.html">United
> <snip>
> 
> What I need is to wack all the text from ' " ' to the end of the line.  The
> result would look like
> 
> <snip>
> biz.yahoo.com/p/t/tmas.ob.html
> biz.yahoo.com/p/t/tgi.html
> biz.yahoo.com/p/u/udi.html
> biz.yahoo.com/p/u/uic.html
> <snip>
> 
> sed _should_ handle this but I'm having issues (I think) getting sed to like
> the ' " ' character.


cat foo | cut -d\" -f1 | xargs wget ....



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