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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search for string in a file and extract another string to a variable Post 302299293 by vgersh99 on Thursday 19th of March 2009 07:32:03 PM
Old 03-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by wabard
Please include your solution in the future to help others out...

FYI... the following should work. Note that the -F parameter is to specify a field separator, in this case, ":".

In a Bourne shell
Code:
MYVAR=`awk -F: '/testing/ { print $3 }' filename`
export MYVAR

why do you need to export?
Most likely the OPs meant this:
Code:
MYVAR=`awk -F: '$1 == "testing" { print $3;exit}' filename`

 

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SYNOPSIS
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Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
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