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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help, extract username from file Post 302585902 by vanessafan99 on Thursday 29th of December 2011 01:43:24 PM
Old 12-29-2011
help, extract username from file

there is a text file like this

text here
text here
text here
text here

USER=someusername here

text here
text here
text here




how can i extract the someusername from this file which has a path like /home/myfile.txt?

i want to store it in a variable $u



thanks in advance!
 

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Name
       DwtSTextSetMaxLength - Sets the maximum allowable length of the text string in the simple text widget.

Syntax
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Arguments
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