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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 04:15:24PM +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.

# echo "able/baker/charlie" | awk -F / '{print $2}'
baker

Dan.
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