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Old 05-06-2009
urgent help awk script
Hi

I have a scenario where i have a file name as

abcd_To_hfgh.20090456778_1.dat

I will get the filename as parameter


and i need a string in between second _ and first . i.e i need hfgh in this case.

Please help me with the script. This may not be awk script even if it can be achivevd by a normal commands that sfine

thanks
Last edited by dsdev_123; 05-06-2009 at 01:00 PM..
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Old 05-06-2009
echo "abcd_To_hfgh.20090456778_1.dat" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' -e 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $3}'
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Old 05-06-2009
Code:
echo 'abcd_To_hfgh.20090456778_1.dat' | nawk -F'[_.]' '{print $3}'

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