getting a field from a line in awk/sed/?

[Robert Claeson]

In article <1991Jan10.012211.22100 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:

|> 	Well, this may not be perfect since I don't have an AWK reference
|> right here, but I think this will work:
|> 
|> 	(program that produces output) | awk '{print $2}'

|> 	If that does not work, try this:
|> 
|> 	awk -f <file that contains input> '{print $2}'

The former should work. The latter doesn't work. The -f flag to awk names a
file containing awk code to execute. But using "cut" is even easier (and
requires less typing) than using "awk".
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