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Posted: **Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:13 pm**

Hello,

How do i get columns out of text in shell?

Tried with substrings

${stringZ:7}

But it isn't exactly what I'm looking for.

Posted: **Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:07 pm**

Hi,

you can do this with awk

For example:

awk '{ print $2 }' list.txt

This gets the second column from the file list.txt
Standard the separation is space (" ")
With -F you can change this

awk -F ";" '{ print $2 }' list.txt

You can also use gawk as an alternative.

How do i get columns out of text in shell