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awk retrieve specific row / column
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| 2nd row 4th column | |
| cat blah | awk 'NR==2 {printf "%s", $4}' | |
| NR -- ordinal number of the current record | |
| NF -- number of fields in the current record | |
| (see man for awk for other stuff) |
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