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Old 10-09-2008
Java select a particular field
hi
i have a file


wwww-qqq.eee [123343333] ksdklfsdf adm,as.d,am sdsdlasdjl sadsadasda
wwww-qqq.eee [123343331] ksdklfsdf adm,as.d,am sdsdlasdjl sadsadasda
wwww-qqq.eee [123343332] ksdklfsdf adm,as.d,am sdsdlasdjl sadsadasda
wwww-qqq.eee [123343333] ksdklfsdf adm,as.d,am sdsdlasdjl sadsadasda
wwww-qqq.eee [123343334] ksdklfsdf adm,as.d,am sdsdlasdjl sadsadasda

from the above file i need to extract secon field [123343333] and print that line to a separate file

please help

thanks
Satya
# 2  
Old 10-09-2008
Code:
cut -f2 file >newfile

# 3  
Old 10-09-2008
awk '{print $2,NR}' "$file_name" | cut -d'[' -f2 | tr -d ']' > "$backfile"
Last edited by a2156z; 10-09-2008 at 05:07 AM..
a2156z
# 4  
Old 10-09-2008
Yeah, you could cut on [ if you want to remove the brackets. The awk is rather unnecessary, though.

Code:
cut -d'[' -f2 file | cut -d']' -f1 >newfile

# 5  
Old 10-09-2008
Or just with awk:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS="\[|\]"}{print $2}' file

Regards
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