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Old 09-24-2008
Parsing textfile problem with cut
Hi,

I have a textfile with several lines like this:
PHP Code:
text num: USER text (num) num num 
I need all these stuff. Problem is, how to get these stuff after ":".
USER is a username and all chars are possible, even whitespace. So I cant use cut. Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 09-24-2008
One way with sed:

Code:
sed 's/.*: //' file

Regards
# 3  
Old 09-24-2008
You can use cut command as you had a doubt about cut.

Code:
cut -f'2' -d':' filename

# 4  
Old 09-24-2008
Question Unclear what you are trying to extract
Cut can handle a specified delimiter like space -d" " or colon with -d":"
Can you provide a better example of input data, and what you are trying to extract?
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