Shell Programming and Scripting

If you are under windows, i suggest you get the sourceforge GNU unix tools compiled for windows.
unzip them into a Directory of your choice and add that directory in your PATH environement variable.
You will then be able to use gawk as well as sed one of the very few thing that will change is the use of doublequote istead of simple quote.

In a DOS windows: example to display the second column of a csv file that is coma separated :

Code:

gawk -F, "{print $2}" yourfile.csv

try like this in perl:

run as follows:
perl try.pl input_file

Code:

while(<>) {
print "$1\n" if /(?<=covers) (\w*);$/;
}

Code:

cat input_file
...  covers bhjl;
...  khkjhk..  covers vjgj;
.. bvjhy.. bkhk..  covers bjhk;

Code:

output:
bhjl
vjgj
bjhk

you can also try from commandline:

Code:

perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /(?<=covers) (\w*);$/;' input_file

Change the regex as per your need.