return a word between two words - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

bryan · #1 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

how do i get a word that exists between two words

eg: this is bryan
My input to command would be this and bryan
and output should be 'is'

Is there a command i can use?

hu$h · #2 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

awk <search pattern> {<program actions>}

http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html

reborg · #3 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by bryan

how do i get a word that exists between two words

eg: this is bryan
My input to command would be this and bryan
and output should be 'is'

Is there a command i can use?

Code:

sed -n 's/word1[ ][ ]*\([^ ]*\)[ ][ ]*/\1/p'

Ygor · #4 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

Try...

Code:

eg="eg: this is bryan"
w1="this"
w2="bryan"
result=$(echo $eg | awk -v w1="$w1" -v w2="$w2" 'match($0, w1 ".*" w2){
   print substr($0,RSTART+length(w1),RLENGTH-length(w1 w2))}')
echo $result

bryan · #5 (**permalink**) 05-23-2006

Thanks Guys

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