I HAVE A FILE "TEXT.TXT" WHICH CONTAINS FOLLOWING :

CHANNEL(SYSTEM.DEF.CLUSRCVR) CHLTYPE(CLUSRCVR)
CHANNEL(TO.XYZ) CHLTYPE(CLUSRCVR)

NOW I WANT THE NAMES WRITTEN BETWEEN THE BRACES () UNDER COLUMN ONE, THAT IS, TO.XYZ and SYSTEM.DEF.CLUSRCVR.

USING awk i can get the first column, but then how to proceed further ?
I am doing like this :

sed -n '/CHANNEL/p' TEST.TXT | awk '{print $1 ;}' | tr '()' ' ' | awk '{print $2;}' | tr ')' ' '

And it does the objective , but i want something more presize and good option !!

ASAP Any help, genius ??
Thanks !!

Hey thanks for your reply !!

Its giving statements within the braces(), BUT it gives something more then that too. Its given below :
$ awk '{print $2}' FS="[()]" text.txt
----------------------------------
C



*

SYSTEM.DEF.CLUSRCVR

TO.EAIDVBR1



----------------------------------

under "---" O/P is like shown above, more blank lines, C, *
Don't know from where its being generated ?

Please if you can rectify this ??
Thanks !!

Could you poste a sample from TEST.TXT?
It has to be different from the lines you posted above ...

CHANNEL(SYSTEM.DEF.CLUSRCVR) CHLTYPE(CLUSRCVR)
CHANNEL(TO.EAIDVBR1) CHLTYPE(CLUSRCVR)


i HAVE THIS MUCH ONLY IN A FILE.

Hey Radoulov,

Can you please check the hint given by you only, once again...!!
I have given the Contents already of the file that i am using. Can you please
help me in that ?

Please check it !!

With cut & paste from your post.

on Linux:

on Solaris:

Doesn't work with the old awk on Solaris, but gives a different result
(produce no output at all):