On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Tom Brown<tom at ng23.net> wrote: > Hi > > I need some logic to work out a value for me - this value is _always_ > the 3rd last field in a string seperated by '.' but the string could be > 5 or 6 fields long, e.g > > foo.bar.VALUE.baz.lala > > foor.bar.gigi.VALUE.baz.lala > > I need to find VALUE - if this were python or something i could do it > but this has to be in shell - awk -F\. {'print $3'} awk -F\. {'print $5'} awk -F\. {'print $6'} -- Muhammad Panji http://sumodirjo.wordpress.com http://www.kurungsiku.web.id