Hello,

I want to reterive the value between ' and ) which is 5000 here.

i have tried out the following expressions ...

Type 1 : $Var1=`sed -e 's/.*\' //' -e 's\).*$/' $line`;
Type 2 : $Var1=`echo $line | awk -F"\'" '{print $2}' | awk -F"\\)" '{print $1}'`;
Type 3 : $Var1=`echo $line | sed 's/.*\' //' | sed 's/\).*$//'`;
Type 4 : $Var1=`echo $line | sed 's/.*\' //' | sed 's/\)$//'`;
Type 5 : $Var1=`echo $line | sed 's/.*File //' | sed 's/Closing.*$//'`;
Type 6 : $Var1=`echo $line | sed 's/"//g' | sed 's/\)//g' | awk -F"\'" '{print $2}'`;
Type 7 : $Var1=`sed 's/.*'\(.*\)).*/\1/' $line`;

but nothing is working out, i am always getting an error saying that
Any Suggestions will be helpful

Thanks

Rahul

Hope this helps:

echo $line | sed -e 's/[()]//g' | awk -F"'" '{print $3}'
5000

Or, finally, with Perl:

The reason you were getting syntax errors is that backticks in Perl will undergo what the documentation calls "double-quotish" expansion. Basically, this means that if you want a backslash to be passed to the shell, you will need to double it, because Perl already parses one level of backslashes. Also, the value of $line is being interpolated by Perl, so the shell sees the literal value echo USING (FILE '/TEST1/FILENAME'5000) without any quoting, and complains about the opening parenthesis. You can get around this with proper quoting; but of course, for trivial string manipulations, Perl itself is actually much better suited than the shell.