file manipulation (easy question I think)

[Jit Keong Tan]

In article <1991Jun17.200748.19324 at msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jpd at tardis.cl.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello) writes:
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>What is this best (easiest) way in which to get the first word
>of each line in a text file to a single line in a new text file?
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>^L
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I ran this in an emacs/src dir:

[63] jit at slic % ls -l t* | nawk '{ printf "%s %s === ", $5,$9}' -
770 temacs.opt === 33296 term.c === 14111 termcap.c === 2202 termchar.h === 1714
 termhooks.h === 1717 terminfo.c === 1475 termopts.h === 177 testemacs.com === 6
 966 tparam.c === [64] jit at slic % 

(outputs got wrapped by the screen)
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