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Old 12-29-2011
help, extract username from file
there is a text file like this

text here
text here
text here
text here

USER=someusername here

text here
text here
text here




how can i extract the someusername from this file which has a path like /home/myfile.txt?

i want to store it in a variable $u



thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 12-29-2011
Code:
$ u=`grep "^USER" /home/myfile.txt | cut -d= -f2`
$ echo $u
someusername

# 3  
Old 12-29-2011
it works, thank you!
# 4  
Old 12-29-2011
Code:
 
awk -F"[ =]" '/^USER/ {print $2}' /home/myfile.txt

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