Question on grabbing second word in a line

[mcallaghan]

What my overall goal is to be able to grab the second word in a line from a awk command.

i have a line that shows the follow

test test123

what i am trying to do is just get the line test123

does anyone know of a awk command to get this.

 

[CaKiwi]

awk '{print $2}' infile > outfile

CaKiwi

 

[mcallaghan]

I am very much uncertain with the proper syntax

Let me try going more into detail about this

We are pretty much passing a variable to this page

lets set the variable

section="test testabc"

I am trying to set a second variable from my section which is equal to "testabc" I would like to do this through either a sed a awk or even a cut.

section2="testabc"

I am kind of unclear on how to do that with what you gave me.
awk '{print $2}' infile > outfile

 

[PHV]

section2=$(echo "$section" | awk '{print $2}')

Hope This Helps, PH.
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