extract part of text from txt fle

Thom Linde · 10-02-2018, 02:58 PM

Hey guys,
I have a file named cookies.txt and I need to create two data blocks. Every block must have some part of information from cookies file, for example:

cookie1=10 letters from cookies.txt
cookie2=17 letters from cookies.txt

I tried awk and grep but neither of them works.. :|

Many thanks!

BW-userx · 10-02-2018, 03:03 PM

please give sample snippet of actual file, and commands you tried with there output, and results desired.

pan64 · 10-02-2018, 03:04 PM

insufficient information.
Is this your homework?
What did you exactly try (awk script and grep and ...)? What is the original input file? What is that "some part of information"?

Honest Abe · 10-03-2018, 12:28 AM

10/17 letters or words ?
Words can be pretty easy with awk. Show examples of your failed attempts with awk.