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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?adrian=20kok?= <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>
Subject: help about awk
To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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Many thanks for help

I would like to ask one more question

How do I get the first column data without :

adrian: math
john: eng
paul: music


Output -->
adrian
john
paul

Thank you again 


--- "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> wrote: >
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:05:53AM +0800, adrian kok
> wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Could you teach me how to get (data1, data2) from
> the
> > following pattern?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > mail home (100,00,000,'1111-2','89','data1');
> > email home1 (200,01,001,'1112-2','80','data2');
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > awk '{print $3}' ->
> > (100,00,000,'1111-2','89','data1');
> > 
> > 
> > But I only need data1 without ' ' eg the output
> > 
> > data1
> > data2
> > data3
> > data4
> 
>   awk -F\' '{ print $6; }'
> 
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                     |    
> cjclark@alum.mit.edu
>                                    |    
> cjclark@jhu.edu
> http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |    
cjc@freebsd.org 

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