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Asked: May 20, 20262026-05-20T02:31:00+00:00 2026-05-20T02:31:00+00:00

Lets say I am running $: ps au in a shell prompt and want

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Lets say I am running
$: ps au
in a shell prompt and want to select 2nd field of 5th entry in that, no matter which process it is. How do I do that ?

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    2026-05-20T02:31:01+00:00Added an answer on May 20, 2026 at 2:31 am

    With awk.

    awk 'NR==6 { print $2 }'
    

    The 6th record because you need to skip the header.

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