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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading a word from a text file into shell script Post 302591549 by agama on Thursday 19th of January 2012 10:44:30 PM
Old 01-19-2012
This prints the third word, assuming space/tab separated words, to stdout:

Code:
awk '{print $3}' input-file

 

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SQL::ReservedWords::Sybase(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   SQL::ReservedWords::Sybase(3pm)

NAME
SQL::ReservedWords::Sybase - Reserved SQL words by Sybase SYNOPSIS
if ( SQL::ReservedWords::Sybase->is_reserved( $word ) ) { print "$word is a reserved Sybase word!"; } DESCRIPTION
Determine if words are reserved by Sybase. METHODS
is_reserved( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either Sybase ASE 12 or 15. is_reserved_by_ase12( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Sybase ASE 12. is_reserved_by_ase15( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Sybase ASE 15. reserved_by( $word ) Returns a list with Sybase versions that reserves $word. words Returns a list with all reserved words. EXPORTS
Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported: is_reserved is_reserved_by_ase12 is_reserved_by_ase15 reserved_by words SEE ALSO
SQL::ReservedWords <http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/> AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org" COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-28 SQL::ReservedWords::Sybase(3pm)
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