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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: getting a field from a line in awk/sed/?
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	Well, this may not be perfect since I don't have an AWK reference
right here, but I think this will work:

	(program that produces output) | awk '{print $2}'

	If that does not work, try this:

	awk -f <file that contains input> '{print $2}'

	Hope this helps.


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