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Old 07-22-2013
Print the word after the string

Hi I have a requirment here. I have to out the string after the particular word. for example i have the to extract the first word after the word disk. help me out. i have tried the folloing code but it is not giving the output which i need.
awk -F"*disk " '{print $1}'
grep -n -o '[Disk]' file

Input :

I have the disk A which stores Songs.
ram has huge disk B which stores movies and games.
sethu have small capcity disk c which holds program documents and other apps.

output:
A
B
C
# 2  
Old 07-22-2013
Code:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++){if($i == "disk"){print $(i+1); next}}}' file

Code:
grep -o 'disk [^ ]*' file | cut -d' ' -f2

Code:
sed 's/.*disk \([^ ]*\).*/\1/' file

With GNU grep:
Code:
grep -oP '(?<=disk\s)\S' file


Last edited by balajesuri; 07-22-2013 at 06:24 AM..
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Old 07-22-2013
Try:
Code:
$ awk -F'disk ' '{split($2,a," "); print a[1]}' input.txt
A
B
C

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