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Old 07-08-2012
Change the file style to another version with awk
Code:
#cat myfile
libgcc: Package > additional *crt*.o files for PPC  libgcc: Package > additional *crt*.o files for PPC
binutils: Default to n64 when configured for mips64  binutils: Default to n64 when configured for mips64
             > gcc-4.6, gcc-4.7: Add support for building mips64 cross compi
             > eglibc: fix build with poky-tiny distro
             > eglibc: Add patch to fix /var installation location
             > eglibc: Add patch to fix /var installation location

to get
Code:
gcc-4.6, gcc-4.7: Add support for building mips64 cross compi
eglibc: fix build with poky-tiny distro
eglibc: Add patch to fix /var installation location
eglibc: Add patch to fix /var installation location

# 2  
Old 07-08-2012
Something like this would help,

Code:
 grep "^>" myfile.txt | awk -F">" {print $2}

# 3  
Old 07-08-2012
Code:
awk -F"^[ \t]+>[ \t]*" 'NF>1{print $NF}' myfile

Last edited by elixir_sinari; 07-08-2012 at 09:05 AM..
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Old 07-08-2012
For spaces only:
Code:
sed -n 's/^ *> //p' infile

to also match TAB's
Code:
sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*>[[:space:]]//p' nfile

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