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Old 09-07-2004
How to get the n-th word in a string
Hi,
Suppose I do this:

$ wc file.txt
96 333 6629 file.txt

and I want to get the 3rd word from the left (i.e. get the string 6629) and check its value.

What do I do?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 09-07-2004
Use "cut" or "awk" and space as a delimiter.
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Old 09-08-2004
Thanks
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Old 09-14-2004
wc file.txt | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f 4
 
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