Newbee
Reputation: 817
how to extract two words from a string using awk?
I have the below string:
70171 32982 0 17:44 pts/5 00:00:00 grep persist
Im trying to extract the words "grep" & "persist" from the above string.
I tried using awk -F' ' '{print $8,$9}' but that's not giving me the expected result.
Can someone tell me how it can be done using awk command.
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1385
Answers (1)
karakfa
Reputation: 67467
awk default field separator handle spaces. If you want to extract the last two fields perhaps
$ awk '{print $(NF-1),$NF}' file
Upvotes: 2
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