Submitted Questions

  • Extract 2 characters in file

    Hello,I want to extract 2 characters of the first column of the one file, that file has 19 columns, in bash script.the first column is some thing like this 2005-07-25, and I want to extract 07. I wrote this codeawk '{ print $ substr ($1,6, 2)}, but out put is he whole of the column: 2005-07-25! can you help me?

    vishal singh

    • May 8th, 2017

    Awk {print substr($1,1,2)} t1.txt t1.txt NAME AGE GENDER SANTOSH 23 Male ajay 24 Male vijay 24 male

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    apoorva

    • Apr 25th, 2017

    Awk -F "-" {print substr($2,0,2)} xdf.txt