Hello!!
I have the text file with following format...

--SubTotal-----------------------------------0--161---------------44---13739369-67---
--SubTotal-----------------------------------0--147---------------0----49643---1----
--SubTotal-----------------------------------0--161---------------20---13750219-31---
--SubTotal-----------------------------------0--147---------------0----49679---0----


I want to extract bold figures in two different columns of output file.
Line 1 and 3 in 1st column while line 2 and 4 in second column.

Please help me in this regard.
Is it possile that i pass my test file in an argument of the script.

Thanks a lot.
BR
Danish

sed 's/--*/-/g' filename | awk -F"-" '{ printf "%s", $6; getline; split($0, arr, "-"); printf " %s\n", arr[6] }'

awk 'NR%2?$0=$6:$0=" "$6"\n"' ORS= FS="--*" filename