Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends ,
I am new to unix ,need your help to fix this
there is a ~ deliminated file. how to find the 5th column of the row.

Code:

awk  'print $5 ' abc.txt

it doesnot work . it works for table deliminated file. My data file is like the following manner.
abc.txt
--------

Code:

a~b~c~d~e~f
a1~b1~c1~d1~e1~f1

my out put should be

Code:

e
e1

regards
ipsita

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Code:

awk -F'~' '{print $5}' abc.txt

Code:

$ awk -F~ '{print $5}' file
e
e1

Or:

Code:

cut -d~ -f5 file