http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:04:45 GMT DZone Snippets: proceessing code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2683 print the first column, delimited by space <br /><code> <br />nawk -Fc '{print $1}' test.txt <br /></code> <br /> <br />print the second column, delimited by : <br /><code> <br />nawk -F: '{print $2}' test.txt <br /></code> <br /> Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:57:56 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2683 nevadalife (nevada)