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Old 07-24-2008
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Actually,
it could be easily done in shell without any external command
(unless, as already stated, there is another reason to use AWK in this particular case):


Code:
% s=a:b:c
% (IFS=:;set -- $s;printf "$3\n")
c

With Z-Shell:

Code:
zsh-4.3.4% print ${${(s.:.)s}[3]}
c