Like so: cat abc.txt | cut -d, -f3 Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: Zhao Peng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:51 AM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: extract string Hi Suppose that I have a file called abc.txt, which contains the following 5 lines (columns are delimited by ",") "name","age","school" "jerry" ,"21","univ of Vermont" "jesse","28","Dartmouth college" "jack","18","univ of Penn" "john","20","univ of south Florida" My OS is RedHat Enterprise, how could I extract the string which contains "univ" and create an output file called def.txt, which only has 3 following lines: univ of Vermont univ of Penn univ of south Florida Please suggest the simplest command line approach. Thank you. Zhao _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
