Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I need to extract text 'ULTIMATE and 4spaces after it' from below line

Code:

77"2686"2010-11-21 14:09:13.000"4"I"200"1"2010-11-21 14:09:14.000"001:S087110131     ULTIMATE        4.99   T""

I have used cut command :

Code:

a=`echo $line | cut -f9  -d '"' | cut -c20-31`
echo $a

But this command considers 5 spaces between '087110131 and 'ULTIMATE' as one single character and it does not produce results as required.
And also the number of spaces between the number and the word is not constant all the time,it varies.

Can anyone please help me out.

Try:

Code:

echo "$line" ...

try with sed

Code:

# echo "$line"|sed 's/.*\(ULTIMATE    \).*/\1/'

Thanks Scrutinizer for the fix. I was struggling a lot on this. It was really helpful.

---------- Post updated at 07:38 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:34 PM ----------

Hi ygemici,
Its not always ULTIMATE i need to extract. It can be any text from position 20 to 31.

Code:

# echo "$line"|sed 's#.\{85\}\(.\{12\}\).*#\1#'

Back to cut but with double quotes round string variables to preserve spaces:

Code:

a=`echo "${line}" | cut -c86-97`
echo "${a}"