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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How Select numbers from a line of text, and remove leading spaces? Post 302844268 by kcpoole on Sunday 18th of August 2013 04:53:05 AM
Old 08-18-2013
Hi Don.. Interesting idea but The 2 variables will be written from data withing the text file, Specifically the first line.
Suppose some more context might help, but i was trying to keep it simple :-).

I will have many files to process and all are the same format, and I will need to extract this line out, and then read the Center Number and name, then write them out to another file.

Another part of the script will read the input file and this part only needs to extract the Number and name from this line. The number wil be any number between 1 and 999, and the leading zero is the problem.

Ken
 

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UNRAR-FREE(1)						      General Commands Manual						     UNRAR-FREE(1)

NAME

       unrar-free -- extract files from rar archives

SYNOPSIS

       unrar-free [-xtfp?V]  [--extract]  [--list]  [--force]  [--extract-newer]  [--extract-no-paths]	[--password]  [--help]	[--usage]  [--ver-
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DESCRIPTION

       unrar-free is a program for extracting files from rar archives.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
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       -x   --extract
		 Extract files from archive (default).

       -t   --list
		 List files in archive.

       -f   --force
		 Overwrite files when extracting.

       --extract-newer
		 Only extract newer files from the archive.

       --extract-no-paths
		 Don't create directories while extracting.

       -p   --password
		 Decrypt archive using a password.

       -?   --help
		 Show program help.

       --usage	 Show short program usage message.

       -V	    --version
		 Show version of program.

NON-FREE UNRAR COMPATIBLE SYNOPSIS
       unrar-free [elvx]  [-ep]  [-o+]	[-o-]  [-ppassword]  [-u]  [--] ARCHIVE  [FILE ...]	     [DESTINATION]

       This  syntax  should only be used in front-end programs which are using non-free unrar as a back-end. It is recommended to use this program
       by GNU command line syntax.

       e	 Extract files from archive without full path.

       l	 List files in archive.

       v	 Verbose list files in archive.

       x	 Extract files from archive with full path.

       -ep	 Don't create directories while extracting.

       -o+	 Overwrite files when extracting.

       -o-	 Don't overwrite files when extracting.

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BUGS

       Advanced features of version 3.0 archives are not currently supported.

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