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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed - Removing all characters from token to end of line Post 302786995 by jcdole on Thursday 28th of March 2013 01:42:45 PM
Old 03-28-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Think awk may be more appropriate, you can use its token splitting features to extract exactly what you want. Tell it that " splits columns and the token will always be the second column, i.e. $2.

FS is the special variable for column separator, so I'm just printing quote, token, quote.

Code:
awk -F"\"" '{ print FS $2 FS }' inputfile > outputfile

Great

But I Known very few with sed and nothing with awk.

Thank you for helping.

---------- Post updated at 18:42 ---------- Previous update was at 18:40 ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by mirni
I agree that awk solution is more readable, but just for the heck of it, here is sed command that should do the trick:
Code:
sed 's/.*\("[^"]*"\).*/\1/'

Great

Thank you for helping.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

column

COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME

     column -- columnate lists

SYNOPSIS

     column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The column utility formats its input into multiple columns.  Rows are filled before columns.  Input is taken from file operands, or, by
     default, from the standard input.	Empty lines are ignored.

     The options are as follows:

     -c      Output is formatted for a display columns wide.

     -s      Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.

     -t      Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.  Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
	     the characters supplied using the -s option.  Useful for pretty-printing displays.

     -x      Fill columns before filling rows.

     Column exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.

ENVIRONMENT

     COLUMNS  The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available.

EXAMPLES

	   (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" 
	   ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t

SEE ALSO

     colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)

HISTORY

     The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

AVAILABILITY

     The column command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

BSD
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