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Awkward: Combine two awk statements

I have a set of data that looks like this:

foo:123 bar baz
oof:2983 rab zdo 
mor:8 eoinn uiemdh

and what I'd like to have as result is:

123
2983
8

Assuming the data is in a file called test.txt, what I currently have is: 

 awk '{print $1}' test.txt | awk -F: '{print $2}'

How can I combine those two statements?

Solution

  • You could sed the field separator to a regex:

    awk -F' |:' '{print $2}' file
123
2983
8