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Old 02-10-2009
Grep Out of a CSV
Hi, I have a CSV file and would like to grep out a particular row of values. The CSV file looks something like...

"email", "data", "date", "other data", "blah", "NUMBER I WANT", "more stuff", and "more stuff"

The file has hundreds of lines and I basically just want the number after the 5th comma. If it helps any, the number is always preceded by the letter "E" Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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Old 02-10-2009
if just need to get col after 5th comma, try below

cat csvfile | awk -F, '{print $6}'

Thanks!
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Old 02-11-2009
Awesome! One more thing I forgot to mention, the number I want is surrounded by "". How can I get rid of those quotation marks? Thanks so much!
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Old 02-11-2009
cat csvfile | awk -F, '{print $6}' |sed 's/"//g'
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