[Gllug] Utility to pull fields from lines of a file

[Jason Clifford]

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:15 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> It must be old age but I've forgotten the name of a standard UNIX utility.
> 
> All I want to do is process a file containing lines like this:
> 
> able/baker/charlie
> home/made/cakes
> 
> and pull out the second field ("baker" and "made") from each one.  I 
> know I've done it a zillion times before (and you could of course do it 
> with Perl) but I'm sure there's a simple UNIX utility which does it.
> 
> Will someone prompt my failing memory please?

awk?
sed?
egrep?
perl?

Now that you're seeing just how much being a teacher leads to brain rot
are you still happy to have made the move? ;)


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