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Old 09-20-2013
Get string between 2 patterns
Hi all, I wish to get the string between u' and '

This is the test.txt file:
Code:
PLAY [SERVER] *********************************** 
GATHERING FACTS ***************************** 
OK: [20.6.1.1] 
TASK: [Get name] **************************** 
changed: [20.6.1.1] 
TASK: [print name] *************************** 
ok: [20.6.1.1] => {"msg": "[u'/project/cars/version/scripts/', u'/project/cars/version/scripts/y.txt', u'/project/cars/version/scripts/x.txt']"} 
PLAY RECAP *********************** 
20.6.1.1  : ok=3  changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0

The output that I want is:
Code:
/project/cars/version/scripts/
/project/cars/version/scripts/y.txt
/project/cars/version/scripts/x.txt

The above strings that I want are between " u' " and " ' ".

I have researched and tried many of the suggested method but fail.
One of those: sed 's/.*u' //' | sed 's/'.*$//'

Can anyone help me?

Thank you!
Last edited by vbe; 09-20-2013 at 05:19 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 09-20-2013
Done with bash.

Code:
grep "'" test.dat | cut -d \' -f2
grep "'" test.dat | cut -d \' -f4
grep "'" test.dat | cut -d \' -f6

You could also do
Code:
grep "'" test.dat | cut -s -d \' -f2,4,6

in a single line but you would have to separate the substrings.

Suprisingly the onliner does result in
Code:
/project/cars/version/scripts/'/project/cars/version/scripts/y.txt'/project/cars/version/scripts/x.txt

with ticks (') that i would not have expected there....
Last edited by MDominok; 09-20-2013 at 06:15 AM.. Reason: Added shell. Added onliner.
# 3  
Old 09-20-2013
Using awk
Code:
awk 'NR%2==0' RS=\' file
/project/cars/version/scripts/
/project/cars/version/scripts/y.txt
/project/cars/version/scripts/x.txt

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# 4  
Old 09-20-2013
Code:
awk -F\' '{print $2}' RS=, infile

-ahamed
# 5  
Old 09-20-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahamed101
Code:
awk -F\' '{print $2}' RS=, infile

-ahamed
Gives me, on bash :
Code:
$ awk -F\' '{print $2}' RS=, test.dat
GATHERING FACTS *****************************
/project/cars/version/scripts/y.txt
/project/cars/version/scripts/x.txt

# 6  
Old 09-20-2013
Hi,
You can try (work with grep that supported -P option (regex engine perl):
Code:
grep -P -o "u[']\K[^']*" file

Regards.
# 7  
Old 09-20-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by MDominok
Gives me, on bash :
Code:
$ awk -F\' '{print $2}' RS=, test.dat
GATHERING FACTS *****************************
/project/cars/version/scripts/y.txt
/project/cars/version/scripts/x.txt

Though my solution is not the cleanest, it works.
Check if you have put a comma accidentally in your dat file.

Code:
-bash-3.2$ awk -F\' '{print $2}' RS=, infile
/project/cars/version/scripts/
/project/cars/version/scripts/y.txt
/project/cars/version/scripts/x.txt

--ahamed
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