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Old 08-21-2008
awk to seperate a string that has a dash
Hello


I have this string

XYZ-ABC
DFT-ERT
QWE-TYU

I want to get the part after the dash. how to do that?

thanks
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Old 08-21-2008
the correct examples are

XYZ-ABC
XYZ-ERT
XYZ-TYU

meaning the first part XYZ does not change
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Old 08-21-2008
awk -F"-" '{print $2}' filename_where_you_have_the_examples
or
cut -d"-" -f2 filename_where_you_have_the_examples
 
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