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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get nth occurence of string from a file Post 302940891 by r@v!7*7@ on Thursday 9th of April 2015 05:12:21 PM
Old 04-09-2015
Get nth occurence of string from a file

I have file in which the data looks like this,

Code:
01,0000000,xxxxxxx/                        
02,xxxxxxxx,yyyyyy/                                    
03,test1,41203016,,/      
01,0000000,xxxxxxx/                        
02,xxxxxxxx,yyyyyy/                                    
03,test2,41203017,,/     
01,0000000,xxxxxxx/                        
02,xxxxxxxx,yyyyyy/                                    
03,test3,41203018,,/

I would not know what values will be there in place of test1, test2 and test3 in my file.

I wrote a command to get these values from the file,
Code:
grep "^03,.*,.*$" file.dat | cut -d"," -f2

this returns,
Code:
test1
test2
test3

Is there a way I can get a specific occurence (ex: 5th or 9th) of this string. let say in this case, can I get only test2?

Appreciate your help.
 

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GET_INCLUDED_FILES(3)							 1						     GET_INCLUDED_FILES(3)

get_included_files - Returns an array with the names of included or required files

SYNOPSIS
array get_included_files (void ) DESCRIPTION
Gets the names of all files that have been included using include(3), include_once(3), require(3) or require_once(3). RETURN VALUES
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