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Old 12-24-2007
Power grep a word and display its column
Hi,

I need idea about this, say I have this line:

05 21 * * 0,6 /user/clean.desktop.sh > /tmp/desktop_rpt 2>&1

I would need to grep the word desktop and display the /user/clean.desktop.sh and not the whole line. And if I have some more lines say,

05 21 * * 0,6 /user/clean.desktop.sh > /tmp/desktop_rpt 2>&1
05 21 * * 0,6 /user/clean.laptop.sh || /user/view.desktop.sh > /tmp/view_rpt 2>&1
05 21 * * 0,6 /user/a.sh || /user/desktop.sh > /tmp/view_rpt 2>&1

It will display:
/user/clean.desktop.sh
/user/view.desktop.sh
/user/desktop.sh

Field separator is the white space.

Any idea how?
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Old 12-24-2007
Assuming you are really looking for the string "/user/*desktop.sh", the following sed script
should work

Code:
sed -n 's/.*\(\/user\/.*\/*\.*desktop\.sh\).*$/\1/p' file

 
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