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How to print few strings in a line?

I have one script which gave final output as the below statment.

Code:

Successfully added Nomination Petition Manifest to the Content Manager.

Now i want a sed statement which will search for this statement in any given file and print only Nomination Petition Manifest. I don't want to hardcore the value like using awk

Code:

awk '{ print $3,$4,$5 }'

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Any help will be greatly appreciable.

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$ sed -n 's/^Successfully added \(.*\) to the Content Manager\.$/\1/p' <your_files>

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Iam not getting any output after using the below code.

Code:

cat vikram.txt
Successfully added Nomination Petition Manifest to the Content Manager

Code:

 sed -n 's/^Successfully added \(.*\) to the Content Manager\.$/\1/p' vikram.txt

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Try this:

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awk '/^Successfully added/{ print $3,$4,$5 }' vikram.txt

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Thanks for the reply Frankiln but i already tried this .I know its working but the thing is that iam not sure that this line will be having a 3 word report or 4 thats why iam searching for something which is in between the entire line.It should print in between added and to of this line.It may be a 3 words or 4 words etc.

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Regarding the difference with the sed command: Your original sample contains a trailing dot, which DGPickett's suggestion takes into account. Replace\.$ with .* and it should work.

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Thanks Scrutinizer.It worked fine.

However i didn't use .*

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sed -n 's/^Successfully added \(.*\) to the Content Manager/\1/p' vikram.txt
Nomination Petition Manifest

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