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Old 02-24-2010
Word extract from a line
In a file let a.txt, has 1 line code i.e.
code
QC:Tiger:10:
/code

I need to get my output like "Tiger 10". So how can i do this?
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Old 02-24-2010
Read this, you will do it by yourself...

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# 3  
Old 02-24-2010
Try this for your requirement.

cut -d ":" -f 2,3 < a.txt | sed 's/:/ /'
(or)
sed 's/:/ /g' < a.txt | cut -d " " -f 2,3
# 4  
Old 02-24-2010
MySQL
Try this code,

Code:
str=`cat a.txt`
IFS=":"

array=( $str )
echo "${array[1]} ${array[2]}"

Thanks
 
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