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Old 09-08-2009
grep attribute value pair and store it a variable
Hi,

I have a file contains attribute value pair like..

..name=erick rollno=583.0 pass=recon..

From the above line, i need to grep for only "rollno" and store "rollno=583.0" in a variable.

Pls suggest
Last edited by skraja1982; 09-08-2009 at 02:30 AM..
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Old 09-08-2009
What shell/language?
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Old 09-08-2009
in ksh
# 4  
Old 09-08-2009
Something like this :

Code:
var=`echo "name=erick rollno=583.0 pass=recon" | sed 's/.* \(rollno=[0-9.]*\) .*/\1/'`

echo $var

Using awk :

Code:
echo "name=erick rollno=583.0 pass=recon" | awk -F"[ ]" -v va="rollno" '$0 ~ va {for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) { if($i ~ va) print $i }}'

Last edited by panyam; 09-08-2009 at 03:54 AM..
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Old 09-08-2009
Thanks Panyam, it works fine.. need one more help..
Suppose if the file looks below

..name=erick rollno=ADsn:583 pass=recon..

then how to grep for rollno and store "ADsn:583" in a variable
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Old 09-08-2009
A bit modification to the above sed :

Code:
echo "name=erick rollno=ADsn:583 pass=recon" | sed 's/.* rollno=\(.*\) .*/\1/'

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Old 09-08-2009
Thanks a lot Panyam.. it works for me.. Smilie
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