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Old 04-12-2008
sed - searching for string and storing in variable
Hi

I'm trying to find a way to search a text file for a specific string.

I have a file which contains i.p. addresses and port numbers in the following format:

'ip="www.xxx.yyy.zzz"'
'port="xx""'

I want to print only the parts between the double quotes for use in seperate variables, if this makes sense. I do not want to store the i.p=" " or port=" " parts of the string.

Also the i.p. and corresponding port number are on the same line, if this helps.

This is what the actual line looks like:

<LS id="group1" ip="www.xxx.yyy.zzz" port="aa" acceptorthreads="1" security="off" defaultvs="http-test-http" servername="test.test.com" >

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 04-12-2008
Try something like:

Code:
awk -F"\"" '/<LS id=/{print $4;print $6}' file

Regards
# 3  
Old 04-12-2008
I forgot to mention that the info is not always stored under the same field numbers, so I need to search for the specific string rather than looking for $4,$6 or any other specific field.
# 4  
Old 04-12-2008
Try this sed command (not fully tested) :
Code:
sed -n 's/.*ip="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' inputfile

Jean-Pierre.
# 5  
Old 04-12-2008
Many thanks Jean-Pierre, that did the trick.
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