Re: access nth argument list in a file

From: Ed Morton (morton_at_lsupcaemnt.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:23:43 -0600

zippy747 wrote:
> I have a file that has this content:
>
> includes="a b c d"
> somethingelse="foo"
> includes="e f g h"
>
> I want to parse out each token after an includes=
>
> In this case I want to parse out
> a
> b
> c
> d
> e
> f
> g
>
> Thanks,
> -zip
>

Assuming you mean to include "h" in the output and that the only double
quotes are around the string of tokens:

awk '/^includes/{gsub("\""," ");for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) print $i}' file

        Ed.

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