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3saul

01-09-2006 08:00 PM

Another SED question

I'm wanting SED to return the third word from a line of text and delete everything else. Can this be done?

homey

01-09-2006 09:11 PM

I think awk would be prettier in this case.

Code:

sed 's/$[[:alpha:]]*$ $[[:alpha:]]*$ $[[:alpha:]]*$ .*/\3/' file.txt

Code:

awk '{print$3}' file.txt

yitzle

01-28-2007 12:06 PM

Didn't want to bother making *another* sed thread, so...
How do I go about exracting a section of text
I basically want: sed 's/^.*(BEGIN.*END).*$/\1/'
Is there a shorter way to write this?

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