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Re: grep command and options
From: |
Charles Swiger |
Subject: |
Re: grep command and options |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Jul 2010 15:33:16 -0700 |
Hi--
On Jul 8, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Anil Kapoor wrote:
> I am trying to read a contents of a file through grep command, if for e.g
> 1st line of my file contains *:MB680* i want to read just MB680 not* :(*
> colon)
Taking you very literally:
% echo '*:MB680*' > /tmp/testfile.txt
% grep \: /tmp/testfile.txt | cut -b 3-
MB680*
...however, I suspect you have a file which is using colons as a field
separator, and you want the second column, in which case awk is probably a
better choice:
% awk -F\: '{print $2}' /tmp/testfile.txt
MB680*
Regards,
--
-Chuck