Search and parse a field with Awk

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Assumed audience : folks who use the command line Type : tip I frequently need to do simple parsing. Often I resort to grep and cut, or a regular expression I send through Python. I rarely use something like awk. I needed to look for a pattern in some text coming through a pipeline (“Configuration backup archive complete”), split that line up by colons, and print the second field. This is what I…

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