extracting some words

Shell Programming and Scripting
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i run a command that submits a word to WordNET which stores the search results in a document which looks like this... i searched "car" in this instance
and id like to extract [6]auto, [7]automobile, [8]machine, and store it in a file with the [6], [7], [8] stripped away just the words. WordNET's results' template is always the same so the layout is consistent, therefore [6] word, [7] word, [8] word occurs in the same order. please help! again thank you very much! :slight_smile:


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     * [4]S: (n) [5]car, [6]auto, [7]automobile, [8]machine, [9]motorcar
       (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an
       internal combustion engine) "he needs a car to get to work"
     * [10]S: (n) [11]car, [12]railcar, [13]railway car, [14]railroad car
       (a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad) "three cars
       had jumped the rails"
     * [15]S: (n) [16]cable car, [17]car (a conveyance for passengers or
       freight on a cable railway) "they took a cable car to the top of
       the mountain"
     * [18]S: (n) [19]car, [20]gondola (the compartment that is suspended
       from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the
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       down) "the car was on the top floor"

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ive managed to extract the whole line where the words i want occur by

awk '/\[[6-8]\]/' myfile

now i need to pick it apart...

3 
BEGIN { FS = "\\[[6-8]\\]" }
NF > 1 {
  for (i=2; i<5; i++)
  { sub(/,.*/,"",$i)
    print $i
  }
}