Using bash to print the third word in a line

[fasoulas]

Is there a way to print out the 3rd word of a line found in a file?

Can i do this with grep??

[sisco311]

awk is probably a better choice:

awk '/PATTERN/{print $3}' file

[fasoulas]

awk is probably a better choice:

awk '/PATTERN/{print $3}' file

ok thanks a lot
i did

awk '{print $3}' file

and it worked