Help with basic C Shell commands:

Hey, I have some questions:

1.

i have a string, lets say:
" <SPACES AND TABS HERE> 11/22/2004 <SOME MORE SPACES AND TABS>"
i want to strip the date

how can I do it? tried with 'cut' but it wont work...

2.

I did

foreach F (*)

now, after i know its a file, i want to take the first line from it, and then the second, etc etc, how can i do it?

3.

how can i check if a character is tab? in an if for instance?

4.

if commands like cut, in the delimitier for instance, how do i write a list of delimiters? like -d ???LIST HERE????



thanks

You can use sed command.



here in sed's/[***]//g' where *** is 'a space followed by a tab'

HTH