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Old 04-05-2013
Serach a string for multiple occurrences in a file and cut related texts
Hi,

I want a help in this forum for my below issue.

1. I have a file where I'm searching for a text .
2. When I get the line where the above string is present I want to cut
some texts from the line where the particular string was found.

These above two steps will repeat in the file for multiple times.

eg.
-------------------------------------------------
file1

aaabhaskisss hi wassup dere
sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

cccbhaskiddd hi wat u gotta
gggggggggggggggggggggggggg

-------------------------------------------------

In the above file
1. I want search all the occurrences of the text bhaski(above we have two occurrences)
2. when bhaski string is found in a line I want the all texts which is 5 charecters after from the string bhaski

So the final o/p would be as below
-------------------------------------
hi wassup dere
hi wat u gotta
-------------------------------------

Can you please help me in this.
Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 04-05-2013
Code:
sed -n 's/.*bhaski.\{4\}\(.*\)/\1/p'  file

Guru
# 3  
Old 04-05-2013
Code:
sed -n 's/.*bhaski....\(.*\)/\1/p' file

PLEASE USE CODE TAGS

Ah, Guru Again!!! Smilie
Last edited by PikK45; 04-05-2013 at 11:06 AM.. Reason: GURU the Guru
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