otako

Hello,
with the following on the bash command line-

echo "alpha, beta:23.52, 21.46" | awk -F, '{print $2}'

the output is-

beta:23.52

can awk remove the "beta:" string so that only the "23:52" is
output using an option and without relying on 'sed' or 'cut' to
filter the input to awk.
ie
echo "alpha, beta:23.52, 21.46" | awk -F, '{print $2}'| cut -d ":" -f 2

23.52

I have used OFS in a script with some success but would like to
know if it is possible to do this on the command line.


thanks,
keith.

grant

grant@peetoo:~$ echo "alpha, beta:23.52, 21.46" | awk -F, '{print $2}'| cut -d ":" -f 2
23.52
grant@peetoo:~$ echo "alpha, beta:23.52, 21.46" | awk -F, '{split($2,k,":");print k[2]}'
23.52

Grant.
--
.... The computer scientist, who had listened to all of this said,
"Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"

chris f.a. johnson

echo "alpha, beta:23.52, 21.46" | awk -F'[,:]' '{print $3}'


Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence

otako

thanks Chris and Grant

ok now and understand the syntax of -F[] and split.

---
keith.