Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 02:27:32 +0100 From: Robert Barten <robert@barok.de> To: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: sed problem Message-ID: <20040201012732.GA22445@octopus> In-Reply-To: <200402010138.44102.dgw@liwest.at> References: <200402010138.44102.dgw@liwest.at>
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:38:44AM +0000, Daniela wrote:
> I was wondering how I can do the following with sed (or another program):
> 1. Output only the text from the start of the line to the first pipe character
> 2. Output only the text between the last and the previous pipe character
> Or, split the line at the pipe characters and assign the parts to different
> shell variables.
cat file | awk -F '|' '{print $1}'
you may print $2 $3 $4 ... or NF (number of fields)
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Robert Barten
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