Using grep to get the next WORD after a match in each line

Question

I want to get the \"GET\" queries from my server logs.

For example, this is the server log

1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa - - [10/Jun/2012          


        

Answer 1

In this case since the log file has a known structure, one option is to use cut to pull out the 7th column (fields are denoted by tabs by default).

grep GET log.txt | cut -f 7