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Old 08-31-2011
Need some help extracting a GUID from file
I'm fairly new to scripting, and need some help in extracting a piece of data from some output I have. This is what the original output looks like:


HTML Code:
.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
| GUID                             | C1           | C2           |      C3             |
+----------------------------------+--------------+--------------+---------------------+
| bc3c0e68f85f45b09f2fec225d516a34 | jim          | Unknown      |                     |
| 7f2f0ab07f1e4dd6b50990b1c2a2b420 | bob          | Unknown      |                     |
| d24828318c3a4ff38bed64c5aef1a6f3 | jimbob       | Unknown      |                     |
| 04c7c914b6604bd9818867b7a12fd5ed | captain jack | Unknown      |                     |
'----------------------------------+--------------+--------------+---------------------'


What I need to get is just the 32 character GUID extracted. I've got this command, and it works, but it's ugly:

cat inputfile |sed '1,3d' |sed '$d' |cut -d' ' -f2 |cut -c 1-32

Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Akilleez
# 2  
Old 08-31-2011
You can lose one thing off the pipe chain right from the start by getting rid of the cat. You never needed it.

Is this mysql output? You can give mysql the --batch and --skip-column-names option to make the output much more scriptable.

If you're forced to use the output as is:

Code:
awk '/^| [0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/ { print $2 }' < inputfile > outputfile

# 3  
Old 08-31-2011
Yeah, it is mysql output, but the command is already formatted as such. Too much work to actually go into mysql to get the data if it's readily available.

Thanks for the help. I think I need to take "awk/sed scripting 99".
# 4  
Old 09-01-2011
Code:
$ nawk -F\| '{print $2}' inputfile

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