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Old 03-13-2012
How to print the text between two strings in unix.
Hi Team,

Would you please help me for the below scenario.

I want to print the text between "PREF:" AND "AVAIL:" in the below example.

For example:-


TEST_TAF PREF: RAC1 RAC2 RAC3 ...... AVAIL: RAC4

Output will be :-RAC1,RAC2,RAC3.............

Thanks in Advance

Shoan


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Last edited by vbe; 03-13-2012 at 10:05 AM..
# 2  
Old 03-13-2012
Do you only have exactly 1 occurrence of each within one line ?

if yes, then

Code:
sed 's/.*PREF//;s/AVAIL.*//' yourfile

# 3  
Old 03-13-2012
Hi Team,

Thanks!! But It will helpful if the output comes with ","(comma) in between.

Output:-RAC1,RAC2,RAC3

Thanks
Shoan
# 4  
Old 03-13-2012
Code:
$ cat input
TEST_TAF PREF: RAC1 RAC2 RAC3 AVAIL: RAC4
TEST_TAF PREF: RAC1 RAC2 RAC3 AVAIL: RAC4
$
$ perl -lne '(/PREF: (.+?) AVAIL/) && print join(",", (split /\s+/,$1))' input
RAC1,RAC2,RAC3
RAC1,RAC2,RAC3
$

# 5  
Old 03-13-2012
Code:
sed 's/.*PREF: //;s/ AVAIL.*//;s/  */,/g' yourfile

# 6  
Old 03-14-2012
Hi ,

Great!! Thanks a lot .It is working fine.


Thanks
Shoan
 
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