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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting specific characters from a text file Post 302305859 by livos23 on Friday 10th of April 2009 12:58:48 AM
Old 04-10-2009
Extracting specific characters from a text file
I'm extremely new to scripting and linux in general, so please bear with me. The class I'm taking gives virtually no instruction at all, and so I'm trying to learn everything off the web.
Anyway, I'm trying to extract characters that follow after a specific pattern ( '<B><FONT FACE="Arial">' ) but before '<' in a text file. I'm having trouble because there are no spaces, so I can't use $. I'm not even sure what kind of commands I should be using. I tried working with awk, but that didn't get me exactly what I want. Now I'm trying to figure out other ways to do this, but I really have no idea where to start. Any help is greatly appreciated.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       fsck.cramfs is used to check the cramfs file system.

OPTIONS

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              Enable verbose messaging.

       -b, --blocksize blocksize
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