Help me with parsing this file

eamani_sun · #1 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

Hi,

I need a shell script that would parse this file

/usr/share/i18n/locales/aa_DJ:title "Afar language locale for Djibouti (Cadu/Laaqo Dialects)."
/usr/share/i18n/locales/aa_ER:title "Afar language locale for Eritrea (Cadu/Laaqo Dialects)."
/usr/share/i18n/locales/aa_ER@saaho:title "Afar language locale for Eritrea (Saaho Dialect)."
/usr/share/i18n/locales/aa_ET:title "Afar language locale for Ethiopia (Cadu/Carra Dialects)."

I want output as this

Afar language locale for Djibouti (Cadu/Laaqo Dialects)
Afar language locale for Eritrea (Cadu/Laaqo Dialects)
Afar language locale for Eritrea (Saaho Dialect)
Afar language locale for Ethiopia (Cadu/Carra Dialects).

I'll greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Sundeep

era · #2 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

Code:

sed -e 's/.*"//;s/\."$//' file

That's not parsing, though, it's just throwing away the parts you don't want.

Franklin52 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

Or:

Code:

awk -F"\"" '{print $2}' file

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