Issue
So I have a text file with
"sam", "james", "john"
"luke", "polly", "jack"
I am looking for an awk command that will isolate each name. I seem to be running into the issue that awk does not like me setting " as the delimiter
I would like it to look like
sam
luke
if I were to try and print field 0
I have tried these commands
awk -F""" '{print $0}' test.txt
awk -F"\"" '{print $0}' test.txt
awk -F'"' '{print $0}' test.txt
awk -F'\"' '{print $0}' test.txt
awk -F" '{print $0}' test.txt
None of those seems to have worked. This is my first time asking a question on here. Also started learning to code about 5 weeks ago as well :D so I hope this makes sense, isn't a dumb question and that I formatted it all correctly!
Solution
With your shown samples please try following. Basically you need to print the correct field number here to get your expected output. That field number would be 2nd field.
awk -F'"' '{print $2}' Input_file
Answered By - RavinderSingh13 Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (WPSolving Admin)