AWK - help in selecting field

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help in selecting field

rogv24@yahoo.com

2006-05-22, 6:57 pm

I am trying to read line 4 and then select the second field of that
line.
I can do it with two statements.
How can I combine them into one statement?

awk ('NR==4' && '{print $2}') /tmp/info4

This statement doesn't work.

thank you

Chris F.A. Johnson

2006-05-22, 6:57 pm

On 2006-05-22, rogv24@yahoo.com wrote:
> I am trying to read line 4 and then select the second field of that
> line.
> I can do it with two statements.
> How can I combine them into one statement?
>
> awk ('NR==4' && '{print $2}') /tmp/info4
>
> This statement doesn't work.

awk 'NR == 4 { print $2; exit }' /tmp/info4

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Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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rogv24@yahoo.com

2006-05-22, 6:57 pm

thanks

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