Retrive information? 1

percent · Sep 6, 2004

I'm having trouble finding finding a command that does what I need. What I need to do is retrive information from a table like list(an example is below - I need to retrive variables from for two different type of lists - these are for two seperate script they are just related in what I need done):

(List #1)
VarA1 VarA2 VarA3
VarB1 VarB2 VarB3
VarC1 VarC2 VarC3
VarD1 VarD2 VarD3

(List #2)
VarA1:VarA2:VarA3
VarB1:VarB2:VarB3
VarC1:VarC2:VarC3
VarD1:VarD2:VarD3

What I want to beable to do is retrive a variable from the list - I would like to beable to specify what row and what column to retrive the value for. Any help is appreciated.

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Salem · Sep 7, 2004

Code:

# extract row 2 column 2 from your first file
awk -v r=2 -v c=2 'NR==r { print $c }' file.txt

Use the -F option of awk to change the separator when dealing with the second file.

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percent · Sep 7, 2004

Thank You - Worked Perfect(Exactly what I was looking for)

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