Without knowing how the bold characters are encoded, we can only guess. There is no single unambiguous standard for this, but ANSI escape codes are probably a good guess.
A complexity is that the bold codes contain control characters, which cannot be typed here (and might be hard to type on your keyboard).
The general solution to this problem is to replace (with sed, for example) everything up to the string you want to find -- the bold code, in your case (if I understand correctly). As a proof of concept, try this:
Code:
sed 's/.*fnord//'
When you type something, if it contains the word "fnord", everything up to and including that word is removed. (Type ctrl-D to stop.)
Now, you want to do the same with the bold code as the magic word, but that is hard to type and hard to guess. But you could try asking the "tput" command to insert the bold code for you, so you don't even have to know what it is.
Try this:
Code:
sed "s/.*`tput smso`//" file
See the tput manual page for some other things to try if that doesn't work for you. Or if you know what the bold code is (maybe from looking at your file), see if you can copy+paste or type that in.
Hi All,
Am trying to write wrapper shell/bash script on a utility tool for which i need to pass 2 files as arugment to execute utility tool.
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Hi all :)
It sounds complex, for example
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Hi,
I need help with using an awk or sed filter on the below line
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