Question

How to extract the second word from a string in Bash

Answer 1

S="bash python java c c++ c#"

echo $S | cut -d " " -f 2



    
    
# run:
#
# python
#

 

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Answer 2

S="bash python java c c++ c#"

second_word=$(echo $S | awk '{print $2}')
echo $second_word



    
    
# run:
#
# python
#

 

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