sed question

From: Dan Hubbard <dhubbard_at_netpart.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:25:10 -0700

After looking through some resources I cannot find the answer on how to do
this with sed :

I have a sample file with the following in it:

good the bad and ugly

Each time this file gets created it will have a different 3rd word, but the
3rd word is always the one I want to extract.

So, I would like to sed the file and extract just the 3rd word ?

I can only see how to extract lines of information like:

sed -e '/b/!d' mush
returns the whole line ?

BTW: sed and awk are my only options on this one.

TIA

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Dan Hubbard
Received on Thu Jul 02 1998 - 21:31:33 NZST

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