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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK with multiple delimiters Post 302451370 by gdub on Monday 6th of September 2010 04:32:54 PM
Old 09-06-2010
Works great - Thanks!

---------- Post updated at 09:32 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:12 PM ----------

BTW - I am trying to capture STDOUT so hence not read a 'file' but passing the string to awk via a pipe. $0 shows the whole string but $1 shows NULL so it doesn't seem to like the delimiters.

eg. I am trying this:
STR="bla bla bla [123] bla bla" #normally the stdout from a command line call of a software product
RUNID=`echo ${STR} | awk -F'[\\[\\]]' '{print $2}'`
echo ${ID}

There's probably a better way to do it but I haven't coded for years.
any ideas?
 

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