Search for string in a file and extract another string to a variable - Shell Programming and Scripting

vgersh99 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by wabard

Please include your solution in the future to help others out...

FYI... the following should work. Note that the -F parameter is to specify a field separator, in this case, ":".

In a Bourne shell

Code:

MYVAR=`awk -F: '/testing/ { print $3 }' filename`
export MYVAR

why do you need to export?
Most likely the OPs meant this:

Code:

MYVAR=`awk -F: '$1 == "testing" { print $3;exit}' filename`