Search for qoutes

agarwal · #1 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008

Suppose i have a text as below:

"abc"
abc("abc")
lmn("abc")

I want to search for the qoutation of the first line and if qoutation found, then save it to another file. How can i do that?

nua7 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008

cat file1 | grep '\"'|tail -1 > file2

ghostdog74 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008

Code:

awk 'NR==1 && /\"/{print}' file

agarwal · #4 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008

I have got the answer.
grep '^"' test1.txt

krishmaths · #5 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008

@agarwal:

You've framed your question incorrectly. It does not describe your requirement, according to the solution you've posted yourself now.

This has lead experts provide answers for your incorrect statement. Take care of this in future.

Cheers!

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