Hi,
the text line looks like this:
"test1" " " "test2" "test3" "test4" "10" "test 10 12" "00:05:58" "filename.bin" "3.3MB" "/dir/name" "18459"
what's the best way to select any of it? So I can for example get only the time or size and so on.
I was trying awk -F""" '{print $N}' but that didn't work.
field=4
awk FS '("| )' -v fld=$field '{print $fld}' inputfilename
You can have several different field sep. The default is tab/space.
What you want to select? For the last column use $(NF-1) variable
awk -F\" {print $(NF-1)}' file
I just need a way to extract for example the time or size or dir name from the text line.
so I can use it like:
echo "test1" " " "test2" "test3" "test4" "10" "test 10 12" "00:05:58" "filename.bin" "3.3MB" "/dir/name" "18459" | awk or whatever
and as output get 00:05:58 or 18459 and so on