printing the nth word of anyfile

**dahr** · 07-28-2008

Hi,

I need a scrip that could print the 5th, 10th, 15th... of any file

Any guess?

**smolloy** · 07-28-2008

What format is the file in? In other words, is there only one word on each line, or is it a series of words separated by spaces?

**dahr** · 07-28-2008

There are words separated by spaces in the file

**smolloy** · 07-28-2008

Code:

awk '{print $2}' file.txt

Obviously replacing file.txt with your file!

Change the $2 to $10 to print the 10th word, etc.

Code:

awk '{print $2 " " $4}' file.txt

This prints the 2nd and 4th words.

**scrarfussi** · 07-29-2008

Hmmm is this homework