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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Grep and extract the characters after Post 302125039 by pressy on Tuesday 3rd of July 2007 12:42:13 PM
Old 07-03-2007
Code:
root@mp-wst01 # cat testfile
A /u/ab/test1.dat
A/u/ab/test2.dat
A /u/bb/test3.dat
A/u/cc/test4.dat
root@mp-wst01 # cut -f"2" -d"A" < testfile | sed 's/ //' > newfile
root@mp-wst01 # cat newfile
/u/ab/test1.dat
/u/ab/test2.dat
/u/bb/test3.dat
/u/cc/test4.dat
root@mp-wst01 #

regards pressy
 

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