Hi Perlers,

  I typically will type the following to collect a specific column of
data from some command's output:

  # some_command | awk '{print $4}'


  I wanted to start using perl one-liners more often, so I thought I'd
try the column thing first.  This is what I came up with:

  # some_command | perl -pe '$_ = (split)[3] . "\n";'


  That feels/seems rather awkward.  Is there an easier, "cleaner" way of
doing this?

--Errin

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