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varun_751980 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-09-04, 07:41

Hi All

This is my file format. In this format in the second line first 6 characters after the space are membership code.I want to extract this from the file for my validtaions. How can I do this in Unix?

010640CAMPOPD01CMGBA 30092004163236 Y
150058270 Z00604N17846
114202062

The part which i want to extract is Z00604.

Plz help ?

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-09-04, 11:31

Code:

sed -n -e '2p' file.txt | sed -e 's/^[^ ][^ ]* \(......\).*/\1/'

or with awk:

Code:

awk 'FNR==2 {print substr($2,1,6)}' file.txt

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