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Answer 1

+5 A:

echo "mtjoseph:6/MKTCzMS/YU.:10974:10060:Matthew"| awk -F ':' '{print $5}'

eumiro 2010-10-08 18:44:06

Googled for *awk split by char*, returned here, oh! my answer is already posted! ;)

takeshin 2010-10-08 18:48:35

or `print $NF` to generically take the last field

glenn jackman 2010-10-08 19:42:52

Answer 2

A:

I find echo "mtjoseph:6/MKTCzMS/YU.:10974:10060:Matthew"| cut -d: -f5 simpler.

bobmcn 2010-10-08 18:53:11

Someone I highly respect once said "there is a whole generation of programmers who think awk is just a synonym for cut(1)".

jbinto 2010-10-08 18:58:26

Answer 3

A:

Or, just let the shell do it (assuming bash)

entry="mtjoseph:6/MKTCzMS/YU.:10974:10060:Matthew"
name="${entry##*:}"
echo "$name" # ==> Matthew

glenn jackman 2010-10-08 19:42:15

awk extract "Matthew" from mtjoseph:6/MKTCzMS/YU.:10974:10060:Matthew