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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to extract string between two specified characters and end of line? Post 303044771 by Dip_1985 on Tuesday 3rd of March 2020 03:28:26 PM
Old 03-03-2020
The below code is throwing error too

Code:
#!/bin/bash
while read line
do
key= $(sed 's/\(.*\)\=.*/\1/' $line)
value=$(sed 's/.*\=//g' $line)
sed "s/$key/$value/g" test.txt
done <  bbb.txt

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Debian::L10n::Utils - Utilities for the dl10n tools parse_subject(SUBJECT) parse_subject extract valuable informations from a subject line. It gets a string containing the subject line (SUBJECT). It returns an array containing the status, type, filename strings and bug number if provided or 'undef' if no status is found. parse_from(FROM) parse_from extract the sender name from the 'From:' field. The name is build from the phrase part of the field, or if none is found, from the comment part where parentheses are removed, or if none is found, from the address where all non-alphanumeric characters are turned into spaces. It gets a string containing the 'From:' field (FROM). It returns a string containing the name. parse_date(DATE) parse_date extract the date from a 'Date:' field. It gets a string containing the 'Date:' field (DATE). It returns a string containing the date in ISO format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss AXhh:mm based on GMT LICENSE
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