Special thanks to Andy Bach, Ray Brownrig, all others say use combination of cut and awk. > I want to grep from file the specific column ...say > grep col78 "Y" *.... and output the whole line. grep '^.\{columnno\}criteria' filename ie grep '^.\{18\}Y' filename RegardsReceived on Mon Nov 26 23:19:45 2001
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