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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extract a substring using SED/AWK Post 302647339 by guruprasadpr on Monday 28th of May 2012 05:00:15 AM
Old 05-28-2012
Hi

Code:
$ x="XYZ[1.2.3]"
$ name=`echo $x | awk -F "[][]" '{print $1}'`
$ version=`echo $x | awk -F "[][]" '{print $2}'`

$ echo $name
XYZ
$ echo $version
1.2.3

Guru.
 

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petitboot-nc [-d, --start-daemon] [-h, --help] [-l, --log log-file] [-V, --version] DESCRIPTION
petitboot-nc is an ncurses based interface to the Petitboot bootloader. Petitboot is a Linux kexec based bootloader that supports loading Linux kernel and initrd images from any device that can be mounted by Linux. It can also load images from the network using the HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP protocols. OPTIONS
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