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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String between quotes Post 302636923 by vibhor_agarwali on Tuesday 8th of May 2012 06:04:01 AM
Old 05-08-2012
String between quotes

Hi,

Need to capture a string between 1st & last quote.

String can be anything like
a b "c" d e
Output: c
a "b c" d e
Output: b c
a "b c" d "e" f
Output: b c d e

sed 's/.*"\(.*\)".*/\1/g'
Above helps me to find the string between last quote.
Need to find the string between 1st & last quote.
 

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