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Old 08-31-2007
ghostdog74 ghostdog74 is offline Forum Advisor  
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Quote:
Originally Posted by charbel View Post
Is that number composed of 5 digits only?
if YES, then you can use the awk command and you can print that substring only....

code:
cat input.txt|awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print substr($2,1,5)}'

this may help.....
no need for cat.
Code:
awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print substr($2,1,5)}' input.txt