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

[David I. Berg]

In article <1991Jan9.162817.17038 at porthos.cc.bellcore.com> snk at bae.bae.bellcore.com (Samuel N Kamens) writes:
>
>The question I had was, how can I use UNIX tools to 
>get one field out of a line?

Use cut. The syntax is ` cut -fn -d" " ', where n is the number of the
field you wish to extract. -d" " specifies spaces as the delimiter between
fields. `man cut' will give you all the particulars.
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