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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Extract string between two special characters Post 302932735 by Don Cragun on Saturday 24th of January 2015 01:05:11 AM
Old 01-24-2015
The following awk command seems to do what you want for the 1st part:
Code:
awk -F'[>*]' 'NF == 3{print $2}' file

which, with your sample input, produces the output:
Code:
1-18
1-2
1-24

If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.

What do you mean by: "Additionally, I would like to loop through each line of the output."? Is there some post-processing you want to do to awk's output? Is it something that you can't do in awk?
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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