cut -f2 -d'=' means you don't have to fire up awk to do it steve -----Original Message----- From: David Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 December 2000 16:36 To: Cameron Simpson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: awk FS Hi Cameron It does! I don't know how I missed that combination. I tried almost every other combination. thanks david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:26:19PM -0500, David Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Does anybody know how to set the field separator to "=" > > Do this: > > echo this=that | awk -F= '{print$2}' > > Works just fine; prints "that" as expected. > -- > Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ > > I do find these commercials entertaining, but then again, I own a Slinky. > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Tefft) > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
