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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Stripping of a symbol from string not working properly Post 302615135 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 29th of March 2012 07:49:50 AM
Old 03-29-2012
Hi,

You could try this:
Code:
awk -F\" '{sub(/[^0-9]*/,x,$9);print $9}' infile

and if this file format is consistent, then you could perhaps use spaces a a field separator
Code:
a=$(printf "%s" "$line" | awk '{print $5}')
a=${a#$}

Or use probably more efficiently, use the read statement in the loop:
Code:
while read x x x x amount x
do
  a=${amount#$}
  echo "$a"
done < infile


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 03-29-2012 at 11:23 AM..
 

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