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06-16-2005

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Originally Posted by k@ssidy

Before I even attempt this, is it possible to grep for a pattern, maybe a partial sentence like "go to page 3", assign that to a variable and then use awk or something to pull out the 3 and assign it to a variable? So first I would have
Gotopg = "go to page 3"
then
page = 3

Certainly, you can grep for strings having more than one word.

In your case, if you trying to find page numbers, you can sed for numbers and store it

Code:

grep -h -o 'go to page 3' *

will print only those instances of the above string.

You can collect the result, sed it for numbers and then get the numbers printed into the variable.

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