AWK query.

[ranjank]

Hi,

I want to print the 2nd part of the sentence in the first coulmn.

For E.g

I want to filter the output project:ranjan which is in the first column in the file.I want to print only ranjan.How can i get this.

--Ranjan.

 

[feherke]

Hi

If the first column does not contain spaces and you have [tt]gawk[/tt] or [tt]nawk[/tt] :

awk -F '[: ]' '{print $2}' /path/to/input

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[feherke]

Hi

Or :

awk '{gsub(/.*:/,"",$1);print $1}' /path/to/input

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ranjank]

Thanks a lot.

Its working with gsub.

--Ranjan.

 

[ranjank]

There is one issue:

There is a space between project: and ranjan

project: ranjan

How can i remove the space with

awk '{gsub(/.*:/,"",$1);print $1}' /path/to/input

Regards,
Ranjan.

 

[feherke]

Hi

The [tt]awk[/tt] will split the line on spaces, so the word "ranjan" will be placed in $2 :

awk '{print $2}' /path/to/input

If that space is not allways there, the problem become abit complicated. If there is nothing after the word "ranjan", then :

awk '{gsub(/.*: ?/,"");print}' /path/to/input

Otherwise, post a full input line.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/