Hi

I'm trying to find a way to search a text file for a specific string.

I have a file which contains i.p. addresses and port numbers in the following format:

'ip="www.xxx.yyy.zzz"'
'port="xx""'

I want to print only the parts between the double quotes for use in seperate variables, if this makes sense. I do not want to store the i.p=" " or port=" " parts of the string.

Also the i.p. and corresponding port number are on the same line, if this helps.

This is what the actual line looks like:

<LS id="group1" ip="www.xxx.yyy.zzz" port="aa" acceptorthreads="1" security="off" defaultvs="http-test-http" servername="test.test.com" >

Thanks in advance.

Try something like:

Regards

I forgot to mention that the info is not always stored under the same field numbers, so I need to search for the specific string rather than looking for $4,$6 or any other specific field.

Try this sed command (not fully tested) :
Jean-Pierre.

Many thanks Jean-Pierre, that did the trick.