Hi,

I would like to extract a certain portion of sentences from a particular sentence i.e. to extract the last section embrace by []

input
[111] [SEND][abc.q][123456]
[122341] [SEND][ertgh.q][abcdef]

output
[123456]
[abcdef]

Please advice.

Cheers

echo '[122341] [SEND][ertgh.q][abcdef]' | nawk -F'[]]|[[]' '{print "[" $(NF-1) "]"}'
echo '[122341] [SEND][ertgh.q][abcdef]' | sed 's/.*\(\[.*\]\)/\1/'
echo '[122341] [SEND][ertgh.q][abcdef]' | sed 's/.*\[/[/'

Thank you very much

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Hi,

If i would extract the 1st section and last section of a line

input
2009-05-06 19:48:46.857 INFO - [00001] [184] [AA][1q][ABC]

output
2009-05-06 19:48:46.857 [ABC]

Cheers

Hi,

Need advise on the following:

to extract the first and last section of a lines.

input
2009-05-06 19:48:46.857 INFO - [00001] [184] [AA][1q][ABC]

output
2009-05-06 19:48:46.857 [ABC]

cheers

echo '2009-05-06 19:48:46.857 INFO - [00001] [184] [AA][1q][ABC]' | nawk -F'[]]|[[]|INFO' '{print $1, "[" $(NF-1) "]"}'

hi if would like to get the same kind of result with the output, can you guide me here please

<A>213444555</A><B>

I just want to get the phone number from the there from the file in between <A> and </A>

Thanks

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