I have searched all over the forums for a problem similar to mine. I have found many but i have not been able to get them to work for me unfortunately!
What i am attempting to do is to extract part of a string from a line in a file. This line appears multiple times in the file. Example file:
I have tried using
I expected this to remove all the information on a line apart from the AAA1234AA string. But it does not remove anything at all. Is there any way i extract the string only?
I'm quite inexperienced in unix scripting as you can probably tell. I'm on HP-UX.
Thanks
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I have also tried
but this has not worked either.
but if i try
this brings back the desired result (but only relating to that specific string.
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First best wishes for everybody.
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