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01-24-2008

fpmurphy

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Code:

echo "XXXX.12345.YYYY" | awk -F. '{print $1"."$2}'

or

Code:

echo "XXXX.12345.YYYY" | awk -F. '{printf("%s.%s", $1, $2)}'