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Old 05-22-2006
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Originally Posted by bryan
how do i get a word that exists between two words

eg: this is bryan
My input to command would be this and bryan
and output should be 'is'

Is there a command i can use?


Code:

sed -n 's/word1[ ][ ]*\([^ ]*\)[ ][ ]*/\1/p'