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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting a string from a line Post 302763715 by brunlea on Wednesday 30th of January 2013 11:44:42 AM
Old 01-30-2013
Extracting a string from a line
Hi,

I have searched all over the forums for a problem similar to mine. I have found many but i have not been able to get them to work for me unfortunately!

What i am attempting to do is to extract part of a string from a line in a file. This line appears multiple times in the file. Example file:

Code:
<SOAP </m:req><m:body><m:string>AAA1234AA</m:string></m:body></m:req></SOAP>
<SOAP </m:req><m:body><m:string>BBB1234BB</m:string></m:body></m:req></SOAP>
<SOAP </m:req><m:body><m:string>CCC1234CC</m:string></m:body></m:req></SOAP>
<SOAP </m:req><m:body><m:string>DDD1234DD</m:string></m:body></m:req></SOAP>

I have tried using
Code:
sed 's/\([A-Z]{3}[0-9]{4}[A-Z]{2}\).*/\1/' file

I expected this to remove all the information on a line apart from the AAA1234AA string. But it does not remove anything at all. Is there any way i extract the string only?

I'm quite inexperienced in unix scripting as you can probably tell. I'm on HP-UX.

Thanks

---------- Post updated at 11:44 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:21 AM ----------

I have also tried
Code:
sed -n 's/.*\([A-Z]{3}[0-9]{4}[A-Z]{2}\).*/\1/p' file

but this has not worked either.

but if i try
Code:
sed -n 's/.*\(AAA1234AA\).*/\1/p' file

this brings back the desired result (but only relating to that specific string.

Any ideas?
 

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IRSEND(1)							   User Commands							 IRSEND(1)

NAME

       irsend - basic LIRC program to send infra-red commands

SYNOPSIS

       irsend [options] DIRECTIVE REMOTE CODE [CODE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Asks the lircd daemon to send one or more CIR (Consumer Infra-Red) commands. This is intended for remote control of electronic devices such
       as TV boxes, HiFi sets, etc.

       DIRECTIVE can be:
	  SEND_ONCE	    - send CODE [CODE ...] once
	  SEND_START	    - start repeating CODE
	  SEND_STOP	    - stop repeating CODE
	  LIST		    - list configured remote items
	  SET_TRANSMITTERS  - set transmitters NUM [NUM ...]
	  SIMULATE	    - simulate IR event

       REMOTE is the name of a remote, as described in the lircd configuration file.

       CODE is the name of a remote control key of REMOTE, as it appears in the lircd configuration file.

       NUM is the transmitter number of the hardware device.

       For the LIST DIRECTIVE, REMOTE and/or CODE can be empty:

	  LIST	 ""    ""   - list all configured remote names
	  LIST REMOTE  ""   - list all codes of REMOTE
	  LIST REMOTE CODE  - list only CODE of REMOTE

       The SIMULATE command only works if it has been explicitly enabled in lircd.

       -h --help
	      display usage summary

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	      display version

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	      use given lircd socket [/var/run/lirc/lircd]

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	      connect to lircd at this address

       -# --count=n
	      send command n times

EXAMPLES

	  irsend LIST DenonTuner ""
	  irsend SEND_ONCE  DenonTuner PROG-SCAN
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	  irsend SEND_START OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN ; sleep 3
	  irsend SEND_STOP  OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN
	  irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
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	  irsend SIMULATE "0000000000000476 00 OK TECHNISAT_ST3004S"

FILES

       /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
	      Default lircd configuration file.  It should contain all the remotes, their infra-red codes and the corresponding timing	and  wave-
	      form details.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If lircd is not running (or /var/run/lirc/lircd lacks write permissions) irsend aborts with the following diagnostics:
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SEE ALSO

       The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are located under html/ in the documentation directory.

       lircd(8), mode2(1), smode2(1), xmode2(1), irrecord(1), irw(1), http://www.lirc.org.

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