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awk on a string

Hi

I am trying to do
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awk -F: '{print $3}' a:b:c
to get c.

awk however expects a file:


Code:
awk: can't open a:b:c
any idea?

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Please place your code between code tags.
You can select your code and click on the # symbol above the edit window or place your code between code brackets as follow:

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awk -F: '{print $3}' file
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Quote:
Originally Posted by melanie_pfefer
[...]awk however expects a file:
It's the expected behavior. If you really need to do something like this with AWK, you should write something like this:
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awk 'BEGIN { 
  split(ARGV[1], t, ":")
  print t[3]
  }' a:b:c
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For a string try this:

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assuming: var="a:b:c"
echo "$var" | awk -F: '{print $3}'
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More possibilities:
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echo 'a:b:c' | sed 's/.*://'
Or:
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echo 'a:b:c' | awk -F: '$0=$3'
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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
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