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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting finding characters with new line Post 302365538 by kinny on Tuesday 27th of October 2009 10:46:58 AM
Old 10-27-2009
finding characters with new line

I have a file sample.txt with the below contents:

Code:
Aaa - providioning add ||
dev - reeec
dev kapl ||
ball - HERO ||
bal - provisioning  pro ||

for given name i need the output to be the contents between - and || (excluding both)
for eg : input - Aaa
output - providioning add

I came up with the following
Code:
grep -iw $1  $2 | awk -F"-" '{print $2}' | awk -F"||" '{print $1}'

where $1 - name to search
and $2 - name of the file (sample.txt in this case)

Problem arises for the name dev .The above code only displays reec while i need reeec dev kapl (for more than one line we need the new line to be removed ) . In other words
Code:
grep -iw dev sample.txt | awk -F"-" '{print $2}' | awk -F"||" '{print $1}'  displays  "reeec "

But I need "reeec dev kapl "

Thanks in advance folks

Last edited by zaxxon; 10-28-2009 at 02:35 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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ucblinks(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      ucblinks(1B)

NAME
ucblinks - adds /dev entries to give SunOS 4.x compatible names to SunOS 5.x devices SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/ucblinks [-e rulebase] [-r rootdir] DESCRIPTION
ucblinks creates symbolic links under the /dev directory for devices whose SunOS 5.x names differ from their SunOS 4.x names. Where possi- ble, these symbolic links point to the device's SunOS 5.x name rather than to the actual /devices entry. ucblinks does not remove unneeded compatibility links; these must be removed by hand. ucblinks should be called each time the system is reconfiguration-booted, after any new SunOS 5.x links that are needed have been created, since the reconfiguration may have resulted in more compatibility names being needed. In releases prior to SunOS 5.4, ucblinks used a nawk rule-base to construct the SunOS 4.x compatible names. ucblinks no longer uses nawk for the default operation, although nawk rule-bases can still be specifed with the -e option. The nawk rule-base equivalent to the SunOS 5.4 default operation can be found in /usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk. OPTIONS
-e rulebase Specify rulebase as the file containing nawk(1) pattern-action statements. -r rootdir Specify rootdir as the directory under which dev and devices will be found, rather than the standard root directory /. FILES
/usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk sample rule-base for compatibility links ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
devlinks(1M), disks(1M), ports(1M), tapes(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 13 Apr 1994 ucblinks(1B)
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