Need to delete words in a file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

I have an input file a.txt which contains the following ::

08-08-09 1:00 PM 763763762 f00_unix1_server.txt

i Just need to delete all the words which is before f

Output ::

f00_unix1_server.txt

Thanks

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awk -F " " '{print $5}' file
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echo "08-08-09 1:00 PM 763763762 f00_unix1_server.txt" \^J | sed 's|\(.*\)\(f00.*\)|\2|'
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Can someone explain the " " quotes in:

awk -F " " '{print $5}' file

This works as well. Just wondering.

awk '{print $5}' file

Thanks,

Jaysunn

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awk by default consider the "space" as a delimiter.