Difference between revisions of "print string between two characters or strings"
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| − | $ echo "bla(foo)"|awk -F'[(|)]' '{print $2}' | + | $ echo "bla(foo)ar"|awk -F'[(|)]' '{print $2}' |
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Revision as of 17:48, 4 December 2013
Howto print text between tags or characters with awk or sed
print the text between two tags/characters/strings.
$ echo "bla(foo)ar"|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
