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From: dberg@informix.com (David I. Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: getting a field from a line in awk/sed/?
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.225344.19979@informix.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 22:53:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan9.162817.17038@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> snk@bae.bae.bellcore.com (Samuel N Kamens) writes:
>
>The question I had was, how can I use UNIX tools to 
>get one field out of a line?

Use cut. The syntax is ` cut -fn -d" " ', where n is the number of the
field you wish to extract. -d" " specifies spaces as the delimiter between
fields. `man cut' will give you all the particulars.
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