Re: get the first word of a file

>to obtain the FIRST DATE ONLY
>cat data | sed s/\|.*// | head -1

I woud change the order of sed and head, since sed handles here every
line which is then thrown away by head. Why not

cat data | head -1 | sed s/\|.*//

This should require less cpu

Hubble.

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