Pull out word 1

[smicro]

Have a file that one line reads

848844 retyor toyoyih W=9099 eoeoe

One of the lines will always contain W=
I can grep for W= but it pulls out the entire line, how do I grep for this to just pull out W=9099
The columns and position of W= are changing constantly, tired using awk.

 

[p5wizard]

Something like this (I didn't test it however)?

awk '/W=/ {
for (i=1;i<=NF;i++)
{
if ($i~/W=/)
print $i
}
exit
}' /path/to/inputfile



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[smicro]

Worked Perfect thanks!