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Old 02-01-2020
nawk rocks !!! thank you thank you thank you, it worked like a butter !!!
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Old 02-02-2020
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Originally Posted by knijjar
Thank you so much, can you please explain me what exactly you are doing. by the way it did work and thank you so much. I would like to understand your code.
Code:
while read -r junk other; do printf "%s\n" "$other"; done < filename

Thank you once again.
It is a while loop. In every cycle read a line into the two variables junk and other, where the first word lands in junk. The spaces around the first word are deleted. The source of the read is the file filename because the whole while-do-done block is redirected.
Then the variable other is printed.
The loop continues with the next read. It ends if the read fails, normally when it is beyond the last line (end of input reached).
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