Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:22:08 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Mike Dresser <mdresser_b@windsormachine.com> Cc: adrian kok <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk or sed Message-ID: <20020117132208.C8746@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201171409040.27014-100000@router.windsormachine.com>; from mdresser_b@windsormachine.com on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:12:02PM -0500 References: <20020117190510.80351.qmail@web21206.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201171409040.27014-100000@router.windsormachine.com>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:12:02PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-1] adrian kok wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I have 5 columns in the text file. But I only want to
> > have the third column data
> >
> > How do I take it?
>
> does
>
> cat filename | awk '{print $3}'
>
> do what you want? replacing cat with whatever you want, of course.
>
perhaps
awk '{print $3}' filename
is more straightforward
--
Regards,
Doug
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