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Old 06-29-2009
= delimited
Code:
name=matt
family=fisher
username=garbage

this is a sample file, I need the value of user name that now are garbage.
how I can do it?

by grep or sed or awk.

Thanks in advance
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-29-2009 at 07:02 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 06-29-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zaxon
Code:
name=matt
family=fisher
username=garbage

this is a sample file, I need the value of user name that now are garbage.
how I can do it?

by grep or sed or awk.

Thanks in advance
If you need lines that have the name garbage in them use this

Code:
sed -n -e "/=garbage/p" file.txt

# 3  
Old 06-29-2009
Code:
awk -F"=" '/username/{print $2}' inputfile
or
grep 'username' inputfile | cut -d"=" -f2-

# 4  
Old 06-29-2009
Code:
IFS="="
while read line;do
set $line
if [ $1 = "username" ];then
echo $2
fi
done < yourfile

# 5  
Old 06-29-2009
Code:
cat filename | awk -F"=" '/garbage/{print $2}'

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 07-06-2009 at 03:43 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 6  
Old 06-29-2009
Realy Thanks coolboys!
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