Shell Programming and Scripting

1) grep -i user list | awk '{FS="<";print $NF}' | sed -e 's/>//g'
 
2) grep -i user list | cut -d"," -f 3 | cut -d '<' -f 2 | sed -e 's/>//g'

grep -i user list | awk -F"[<,>]"  '/>/{print $(NF-1)}'

# if only one set of <....> on each line, then this will work
awk '
    {
        gsub( ".*<", "", $0 );    # delete all before open
        gsub( ">.*", "", $0 );    # delete all after close
        print;
    }
'

# if there might be more than one <....> per line, this will do the trick printing
# the contents of each <....>  1 per line
awk '
    {
        n = split( $0, a, "<" );      # split the input line based on open
        for( i = 2; i <= n; i++ )    # for each open; skip things before first hence i=2
        {
            gsub( ">", "", a[i] );     # delete everything after close
            print a[i];
        }
    }
'

# and from the category of "stupid sed tricks" this wil
# also handle multiple <...> per line, and print the contents 
# one per output line. 

sed 's/^[^<]*</</; s/>[^<]*</></g; s/>[^<]*$/>/;  s/></\n/g; s/<//; s/>//'

1) Job <0123456>, Job Name <Test_A>, User <anon>,
 
2) Job <6543210>, Job Name <Test_B>, User <nona>

grep -i user list | awk -F"[<,>]"  '{ print $(NF-1) }'

 
1) anon
 
2) nona

grep -i user VAR_FILE | ./awkline
0123456, Job Name
Test_A, User
anon,

awk '/[Uu][Ss][Ee][Rr]/ {print $(NF-1)}' FS='(<)|(>)' list