From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 11:14:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hoth.ffwd.cx (hoth.ffwd.cx [216.187.116.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F1E37B419 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from skye by hoth.ffwd.cx with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 16RHzK-000OaF-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:14:14 -0800 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:14:14 -0800 From: Skye Poier To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk or sed Message-ID: <20020117111414.I89905@ffwd.cx> References: <20020117190510.80351.qmail@web21206.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020117190510.80351.qmail@web21206.mail.yahoo.com>; from adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:05:10AM +0800 X-URL: http://www.ffwd.cx/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man 1 cut It really depends on the format of your text file. Skye Word on the street is that adrian kok said: > Hello > > I have 5 columns in the text file. But I only want to > have the third column data > > How do I take it? > > > TIA > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- "Natural Gas. It sure gives you some ideas!" - Space Ghost [ www.ffwd.cx ] ffwd internet division To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message