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Old 04-09-2010
grabbing filename from text file....should be easy!
Quick question...I'm trying to grab the .tif file name from this output from our fax server. What is the best way i can do this in a bash script? I have been looking at regular expressions with bash or using awk but having some trouble. thanks! The only output i want is 'cert375670-20100409-032044.tif'

Code:
vsifax@faxer1# vfxstat 1378410
Status for VSI-FAX fax job: 1378410

Submitted by: mfgapp                E-mail      : <none>
Submit time : 04/09 03:24           Queue       : outgoing
Result      : expired               Status      : Max tries reached

To name     : <none>                From name   : Mfgapp User
To company  : Test Company        From company: <none>
To fax #    : 915555555555            From fax #  : <none>
To voice #  : <none>                From voice #: <none>

Subject     : <none>
Num dialed  : 915555555555

File  1     :   1 pg   cert375670-20100409-032044.tif
Total pgs   :   1 pg

Last edited by vgersh99; 04-09-2010 at 02:36 PM.. Reason: code tags, please!
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Old 04-09-2010
Code:
vfxstat 1378410 | sed -n '/^File/s/.* \(.*\)/\1/p'

# 3  
Old 04-09-2010
Code:
vfxstat 1378410 | grep "tif" | awk '{print $6}'

# 4  
Old 04-09-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
Code:
vfxstat 1378410 | grep "tif" | awk '{print $6}'

There's never any need to use grep in this fashion.
Code:
vfxstat 1378410 | awk '/tif/ {print $6}'

Personally, I'd go with a simplified version of vgersh99's sed (unnecessary backreference):
Code:
sed -n 's/^File.* //p'

Regards,
Alister
# 5  
Old 04-09-2010
Code:
vfxstat 1378410 | perl -lne '/^File.* (.*?)$/ && print $1'

tyler_durden
# 6  
Old 04-09-2010
they work great! thank you for your help.
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