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From: Mike Dresser <mdresser_b@windsormachine.com>
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Subject: Re: awk or sed
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-1] adrian kok wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have 5 columns in the text file. But I only want to
> have the third column data
>
> How do I take it?

does

cat filename | awk '{print $3}'

do what you want?  replacing cat with whatever you want, of course.

mike


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