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Suppose I have this sentence:
My name is bob.
And I want to copy the word "is" from that sentence into a variable. How would I access that word, without knowing in advance the word I am looking for? If I know a specific word or string is in the third column of text in a five column text line, how can I take the word in the third column?
I'm using the bourne shell.
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You can also click anywhere in the table column, and then press CTRL+SPACEBAR, or you can click the first cell in the table column, and then press CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW. Note: Pressing CTRL+SPACEBAR once selects the table column data; pressing CTRL+SPACEBAR twice selects the entire table column.
With the cursor just before the first entry of the column, press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + End . This will enlarge the cursor over the full column. Now press Ctrl + Shift + Right and the full column will be selected.
Or click on any cell in the column and then press Ctrl + Space. Select the row number to select the entire row. Or click on any cell in the row and then press Shift + Space. To select non-adjacent rows or columns, hold Ctrl and select the row or column numbers.
word=$(cut -d ' ' -f 3 filename)
cut gives us the third field of each line (in this case there's 1). -d is used to specify space as a delimiter. $() captures the output, then we assign it to the word variable.
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you can use either cut, awk, etc.
Example:
awk '{print $3}' my_file.txt
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