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Old 01-19-2012
Reading a word from a text file into shell script
Hi,
I am new to shell programming.I need to write a script that would accept a word from each line fo an input text file.Can anyone help me with this?Exact requirement: word1 word2 word3 (separated by space) .Now I need word3 from each such line in the text file.
Thanks in Advance,
Manish
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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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Old 01-21-2012
Thanks agama.But I want to store this in a variable in shell script .Please advise.-Manish
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Old 01-21-2012
Use a while read loop:
Code:
while read var1 var2 var3
do
  echo "This is $var3"
done < somefile

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