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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple AWK command? Post 302140464 by 2dumb on Friday 12th of October 2007 02:29:44 PM
Old 10-12-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by ghostdog74
Code:
echo ":this is:that is:" | awk '{sub(":","",$1);print $1}'

ghostdog74, thanks for the quick reply that worked great. i am not sure how it worked. how would i get the word "this" from the following?

echo ":is this:is that:"
 

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TZSELECT(8)						    Linux System Administration 					       TZSELECT(8)

NAME

       tzselect - select a timezone

SYNOPSIS

       tzselect

DESCRIPTION

       The  tzselect  program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting timezone description to standard
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       All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.

EXIT STATUS

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ENVIRONMENT

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