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Nighthawk at 17:50, 4 December 2013

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Nighthawk at 19:04, 21 August 2013

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Nighthawk: Created page with "Howto print text between tags or characters with awk or sed print the text between two tags/characters/strings. $ echo "bla(foo)"|awk -F'[(|)]' '{print $2}' foo $ echo "b..."

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Created page with "Howto print text between tags or characters with awk or sed print the text between two tags/characters/strings. $ echo "bla(foo)"|awk -F'[(|)]' '{print $2}' foo $ echo "b..."

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Howto print text between tags or characters with awk or sed

print the text between two tags/characters/strings.

$ echo "bla(foo)"|awk -F'[(|)]' '{print $2}'
foo
$ echo "bla=@@foo@@"|awk -F'[@@|@@]' '{print $3}'
foo

with sed:

$ echo "blah(foo)"|sed -n 's/.*($[^ ]*$)/\1/p'
foo
echo "aaafoobbb"|sed -n 's/.*aaa$[^ ]*$bbb/\1/p'
foo
[[category:awk]]
[[category:sed]]

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 with sed:
-  $ echo "blah(foo)"|sed -n 's/.*(\([^ ]*\))/\1/p'
+  $ echo "blah(foo)ar"|sed -n 's/.*(\([^ ]*\))/\1/p'  <<< not working!!!
-  foo
+  fooar
-  $echo "aaafoobbb"|sed -n 's/.*aaa\([^ ]*\)bbb/\1/p'
+  $ echo "aaafoobbbar"|sed -n 's/.*aaa\([^ ]*\)bbb/\1/p'   <<< not working!!!
-  foo
+  fooar
 [[category:awk]]
 [[category:sed]]

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 print the text between two tags/characters/strings.
-  $ echo "bla(foo)"|awk -F'[(|)]' '{print $2}'
+  $ echo "bla(foo)ar"|awk -F'[(|)]' '{print $2}'
   foo