That is not a even close to a clear specification.
We don't know what constitutes a variable name in the language you're trying to match.
We don't know if quotes can be escaped.
We don't know if quoted strings can extend beyond line boundaries.
Here is a clear specification of something that will match the examples you have provided:
Quote:
Match and print a string of the form:
where variable is a string of one or more alphabetic characters and string is a string of one or more alphabetic characters, zero or more non-single-quote characters on a single line surrounded by single-quote characters, or zero or more non-double-quote characters on a single line surrounded by double-quote characters.
With the above specification, the following seems to work with your sample input:
producing the output:
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Adding to the comments of Don: If you do want to use regexp patterns like \w, you could use the -P option of grep, which interprets the pattern as PCRE-regexp instead of extended regexp. Make sure that you read the grep man page before you use it, to understand its limitations.
Hi rakeshkumar...
OSX 10.13.0, default bash terminal.
If I am reading this thread correctly...
...to add to the other guys statements can you guarantee things like these will never occur:
Note var== and var==== ...
Bizarre as it seems strange things CAN happen...
Why is is strange? I don't see anything unusual here. With
or the equivalent
you are assigning a string consisting of a single equal sign. With, say,
or, if you are in a funny mood
you are assigning a string of six equal signs. Nothing special here in bash or sh. Just in the case you want to do it in zsh, note that an unquoted equal sign has a special meaning, so in zsh you would have to write
Hi rovf...
Longhand OSX 10.12.1, default bash terminal.
As Don has suggeted with his code it works with the given sample and fine it is.
However...
As the OP hasn't given any reference to whether any variables are going to have other '=' in its string leading or otherwise then this could much more difficult than Don's solution.
I am not proficient enough on grep to solve it, but I see difficulties when they arrive.
For example: this for variable 'c' c=x=cat gives the result c=x . Although bash can accept it, doesn't mean a utility can without some serious thought. Who is to say that the OP's post doesn't have any number of '=' inside any one variable string.
As I don't know enough about the absolute subtleties of grep I will have to leave it to pros like Don et al to give their excellent advice...
Hi rovf...
Longhand OSX 10.12.1, default bash terminal.
As Don has suggeted with his code it works with the given sample and fine it is.
However...
As the OP hasn't given any reference to whether any variables are going to have other '=' in its string leading or otherwise then this could much more difficult than Don's solution.
I am not proficient enough on grep to solve it, but I see difficulties when they arrive.
For example: this for variable 'c' c=x=cat gives the result c=x . Although bash can accept it, doesn't mean a utility can without some serious thought. Who is to say that the OP's post doesn't have any number of '=' inside any one variable string.
Well, first of all,
will display x=cat, because this is what c is set to. Of course, given the way you are grepping the file (using the -o option), this will show only c=x. This is the consequence of the grep pattern you are using.
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