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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to extract text from a line in file Post 302270479 by Yogesh Sawant on Monday 22nd of December 2008 03:18:24 AM
Old 12-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by sai21
try this one
cat abc.txt | grep s_dbport | awk -F" " '{ print $4 }'
that's another case of useless use of cat. this would suffice:
Code:
grep s_dbport abc.txt | awk -F" " '{ print $4 }'

the awk solution provided by franklin52 even eliminates use of grep
 

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unmass

UNMASS(1)						      General Commands Manual							 UNMASS(1)

NAME

       unmass - extract game archive files

SYNOPSIS

       unmass [options] file

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the unmass command.

       unmass  is  a  tool  to extract game archives. It supports the following archive types: Crismon Land, Baldur's Gate 2, Civilization 4, Doom
       (WADs), Dune 2, Etherlords 2, Final Fantasy 7 and 8, Flashpoint, Knights of Xentar, Metal Gear Solid (DARs), Moorhuhn 2 and 3, Megaman Leg-
       ends,  Oni,  Operation  Flashpoint, Princess Maker 2, Quake 1, RollCage, Swine, Unreal Tournament umods, Virtua Fighter bitmaps, MEA exe's,
       some economy file format.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -e <archive file> <file name> [...<file name>]
	      Opens the archive and extract files.

       --modules
	      Prints out list of modules for archive loading.

       --list <archive file>
	      Opens the archive and prints list of the files inside.

EXAMPLES

       Display list of files contained inside archive 'battle.lgp'

       unmass -list battle.lgp

       Opens 'battle.lgp' and extracts file 'aabc.txt' and all files ending
	      with 'dat' into current directory

       unmass -e battle.lgp aabc.txt *dat

SEE ALSO

       pak(1).

AUTHOR

       unmass was written by Miro Janosik.

       This manual page was written by Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   July  9, 2007							 UNMASS(1)
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