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# 1  
Old 04-19-2013
TO get the strings of variable length between " "
HI EVeryone,

i have the below in one file say file1

Code:
"17">
"37">
"15">
"1">
"1925489">
"6">
"282589">
"22564">
"42123685">
"5">

i would like to get the output as

Code:
17
37
15
1
1925489
6
282589
22564
42123685
5

# 2  
Old 04-19-2013
Code:
$ sed 's/"\(.*\)">/\1/' file1
17
37
15
1
1925489
6
282589
22564
42123685
5

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# 3  
Old 04-19-2013
Code:
$ sed 's/[">]//g' file
17
37
15
1
1925489
6
282589
22564
42123685
5

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# 4  
Old 04-19-2013
Code:
tr -d '">' < file

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# 5  
Old 04-19-2013
Few awk solutions:
Code:
awk -F\" '{print $2}' file

Code:
awk '{gsub(/[">]/,x)}1' file

Code:
awk '{match($0,/^".*">/); print substr($0,RSTART+1,RLENGTH-3)}' file

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