Radnaskela Samot

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Nov 17	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? I updated my initial question with the specific scenario.
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Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? We are talking about an 'ls' of a large directory that produces a mutli column output that is saved to a file.
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Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? Sorry for being unclear. The file consists of seperate lines and on each line there are words seperated by spaces or tabs. I added example input file text in my first question.
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Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? The input is a multiline (but not always multiline) text file containing words seperated by spaces, tabs, new lines, etc ... (like an entire book) I need to extract each word using an index in variable form and save that word in a variable to be processed.
Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? If I pass it a file (cat file \| awk -v RS=\ 'NR==2{print}') that has 3 lines: "one two" , "three four" , "five six" it prints out "two" and then "three" on seperate lines.
Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? No. I get the same result. Thanks.
Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? I run the command exactly as in your example using read or read -r and prints line by line: _word1 word2_
Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? I said file when I meant line. It is still printing line by line. "one two"
Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? This is very good. Is there a way to send an index to awk to specify which word to print out?
Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? I create three seperate lines with two words in each line.
Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? Yes string=word. I tried your example however it did not work. I echo $word and it prints the entire file.
Nov 16	comment	How to traverse a file and extract words using their index? The idea is to process every string in the file as though the file were an array, without processing lines.
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