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Old 04-07-2009
Printing a part of a string
hi
I have the input as follows
ABC =893
JKL = "jee"
alias PQR = 9833
alias STUVE = "kuiue"

I should be able to print as follows
ABC
JKL
alias PQR
alias STUVE


Thanks
Suresh
# 2  
Old 04-07-2009
Code:
sed 's/ =.*//'

Regards
# 3  
Old 04-07-2009
Hi
Thank you very much for your fast reply . It is working in most of the cases but not working only in the case as i have mentioned below
Can you please help

alias NAME = ..
alias HOME = ${HOME}/bdir
alias BASE = ${HOME}/runddir
alias SEND = ${TRES}/jundir/finddir

Thanks
Suresh
# 4  
Old 04-07-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ssuresh1999
Hi
Thank you very much for your fast reply . It is working in most of the cases but not working only in the case as i have mentioned below
Can you please help

alias NAME = ..
alias HOME = ${HOME}/bdir
alias BASE = ${HOME}/runddir
alias SEND = ${TRES}/jundir/finddir

Thanks
Suresh
Code:
nawk -F'\=' '{print $1}' zenith

# 5  
Old 04-07-2009
Thank you so much for the reply it is working fine
Cheers
Suresh
# 6  
Old 04-07-2009
Code:
sed 's/.*= *//' myFile

# 7  
Old 04-07-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
sed 's/.*= *//' myFile


Code:
$ sed 's/.*= *//' myfile
 
Returns:
${HOME}/bdir
${HOME}/runddir
${TRES}/jundir/finddir

 
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