Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to extract some text between two strings in a line i am using following command i.e;

Code:

awk '/-string1/,/-string2/' filename

contents of file is---

Code:

line1
line2
aaa -bbb -ccc -string1 c,d,e -string2
line4

but it is showing complete line which is having searched strings.

Code:

aaa -bbb -ccc -string1 c,d,e -string2

I want only

Code:

c,d,e

so can any one help me to do this task?

Thanks
Manish

Perl

Code:

perl -nle 'print $1 if /-string1(.+?)-string2/' inputfile

You would need to further tell awk which strings needs to be printed. By default it prints the whole line read.

Code:

awk '/string/{print $5}' inputfile

Thanks for quick response....it is working fine...But i want to do this thing in shell scripting only..

So Please tell me any command in shell scripting

Thanks
Manish

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@michaelrozar17

Thanks for your reply

But if i do not know about the field($5) then how can i exract strings after strings1.

One more thing,
after the find out string1... i have to extract the string till the next space after string1.

How can i do this task?

Thanks
Manish

Something like this...?

Code:

sed -n '/string/s/.*string. \([^ ]*\) .*/\1/p' inputfile

@michaelrozar17
Thanks for you reply

But it is not working, it is not giving any output.
So Can you please explain me this command?

Thanks

Code:

sed -n 's/.*string1 \([^ ]*\) .*/\1/p' file