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07-24-2008
radoulov
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Originally Posted by
melanie_pfefer
[...]awk however expects a file:
It's the expected behavior. If you really need to do something like this with AWK, you should write something like this:
Code:
awk 'BEGIN { split(ARGV[1], t, ":") print t[3] }' a:b:c
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