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# 1  
Old 07-12-2013
sed -n option
Hi i am facing problem with sed -n option could you please help me on this, i have a file test the contents of the file is

width="75">10/0 4/12</td>^M><a href='courtorders/100412zr.pdf' target="_blank">Miscellaneous Order</a></td>^M width="75">10/01/12</td>^M><a href='courtorde rs/100112zor.pdf' target="_blank">Order List</a></td>^M width="75"></td>^M><a href='' target="_blank"></a></td>

the above content is present in one line, so i have written code to separate

Code:
cat two | sed -e 's/<\/a><\/td>/\
/g'  -e 's/^M//g' -n -e '/pdf/p'

output of the above command is
Code:
 width="75">10/0 4/12</td>^M><a href='courtorders/100412zr.pdf' target="_blank">Miscellaneous Order
^M width="75">10/01/12</td>^M><a href='courtorde rs/100112zor.pdf' target="_blank">Order List
^M width="75"></td>^M><a href='' target="_blank">

according to last part of sed command it should print only the lines which have word "pdf" in it , but its not happening its printing lines which doesnt have "pdf" also so please help me to understand what i was doing wrong
# 2  
Old 07-12-2013
try this

Code:
 
cat two | sed -e 's/<\/a><\/td>/\
/g'  -e 's/^M//g' | sed -n '/pdf/p'

# 3  
Old 07-12-2013
I guess you can't use selective printing when combining multiple sed commands. Instead you could just pipe it to a new sed instance:

Code:
cat two | sed -e 's/<\/a><\/td>/\
/g'  -e 's/^M//g' | sed -n '/pdf/p'

Last edited by Subbeh; 07-12-2013 at 10:14 AM.. Reason: Nvm, millan beat me to it :)
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# 4  
Old 07-12-2013
Why not
Code:
sed -n '/pdf/ {s/^M//g; ...etc...;p}' two

?
# 5  
Old 07-12-2013
Yes if i use separate sed its working , but what is the problem if i use with -e option
# 6  
Old 07-13-2013
Code:
$ echo 'width="75">10/0 4/12</td>^M><a href='courtorders/100412zr.pdf' target="_blank">Miscellaneous Order</a></td>^M width="75">10/01/12</td>^M><a href='courtorde rs/100112zor.pdf' target="_blank">Order List</a></td>^M width="75"></td>^M><a href='' target="_blank"></a></td>' | awk -F "['/ ]" '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i~/pdf/)print $i}}'
100412zr.pdf
100112zor.pdf

# 7  
Old 07-15-2013
Thanks all for your replies, but can any confirm that we cannot use multiple sed that is with -e option for selective text printing
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