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Old 01-22-2009
Newbie Help with Grep or Awk .. Easy one ...
I have this output:

uniquemember=uid=315kthatch,ou=people,ou=client315,dc=paisleyhosting,dc=com

and i want the output to be just this:

315kthatch

I need it to be generic tho, because I have hundreds of lines of output, and the preceding numbers are not always 315. So I would need everything that equals "uid=*"
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Old 01-22-2009
YMMV:
Code:
echo 'uniquemember=uid=315kthatch,ou=people,ou=client315,dc=paisleyhosting,dc=com' | awk -F'[=,]' '{print $3}'

echo 'uniquemember=uid=315kthatch,ou=people,ou=client315,dc=paisleyhosting,dc=com' |sed 's/.*uid=\([^,][^,]*\).*/\1/'

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Old 01-22-2009
Thank you.
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Old 01-22-2009
I am not sure if you can use two characters as a delimiter in AWK. I would try this below to get the ids
echo 'uniquemember=uid=315kthatch,ou=people,ou=client315,dc=paisleyhosting,dc=com' | awk -F= '{print $3}'|awk -F, '{print $1}'
 
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