Help in grep command

[GVishnu]

Hi,

I have following row in a file (this file conatins only one row)

No.of.rows|9

I need to get number i.e '9' from the above line.More specifically, I need to get value after the '|'(pipe) delimiter.

Could you please help me how to get that number from the file.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Vishnu

[ennoil]

Use awk:
awk -F | '{ print $2}'

[GVishnu]

Hi ,

I am using footer.txt file which consist of the
No.of.rows|9
row
As per your suggastion am using the command like

footer.txt | awk -F | '{ print $2}'

but its throwing an error.

Could you please help me out here!

Thanks and Regards,
Vishnu.

[ghostdog74]

Hi ,

I am using footer.txt file which consist of the
No.of.rows|9
row
As per your suggastion am using the command like

footer.txt | awk -F | '{ print $2}'

but its throwing an error.

Could you please help me out here!

Thanks and Regards,
Vishnu.

its like this

awk -F | '{ print $2}' footer.txt

[GVishnu]

Hi,

According to your suggastion I tested in the server where the footer file exists but its throwing an error like

[root@cognos.int.pic paymaster]# awk -F | '{ print $2}' footer.txt
-bash: { print $2}: command not found
awk: option requires an argument --

could you please help me out

Many Thanks,

[ghostdog74]

Hi,

According to your suggastion I tested in the server where the footer file exists but its throwing an error like

[root@cognos.int.pic paymaster]# awk -F | '{ print $2}' footer.txt
-bash: { print $2}: command not found
awk: option requires an argument --

could you please help me out

Many Thanks,

sorry pls try this

awk -F "|" '{ print $2}'  footer.txt

[GVishnu]

Thank you very much !! Its working fine.

Kind Regards,
Vishnu.