Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Hey guys,
> Looking through my book and the web and I am not having any success
> returning data from a search.
>
> I need to have awk search for a string and print the first field which
> is no problem but now its returning two options as the input data has
> changed. The change is reliable, I only want the first field if it ends
> in a regex that I have, and I only want what that regex matches to be
> printed. Is it possible to do this in a one liner so I don't need to
> construct an awk script?
>
> I suppose I could pipe it into grep and cut but that's not very sexy :)
Sed is the next tool up from grep:
sed -n -e 's/.*\(regex\.*)/\1/p'
will print the matching regex, so if you can expand it to match whatever
you are calling a field it should work.
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Les Mikesell
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