Hello everybody,

I have a text file containing hundreds of lines of words and numbers. Following is a sample:

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counts=11 photons=23.5 emision=132.8 filt.=33
counts=67 photons=17.2 emision=237.1 filt.=21
counts=93 photons=12.7 emision=764.9 filt.=52
counts=19 photons=63.0 emision=631.2 filt.=35
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I need a command in Linux which finds all the "emision" keywords in the file and then only returns their values (in this case, 132.8, 273.1, 764.9, 631.2).

Is Linux able to do this!?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Best regards,
Hassan

^ what have you tried so far ? where are you stuck.
grep or awk will likely do what you need.

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Hi schneidz,

Thanks for the reply.
Actually I had no idea how to do that.

Would you please give an example of grep printing, for example, the values of the "emision" keyword?

Thanks.

There are multiple ways of doing what you ask.

This is probably the easiest way (assuming your example is accurate): The -c32-36 tells cut to show characters 32 to 36

Have a look at the cut man page for more details/options.

A more complex solution would be to use awk:or, using sed: Up to you to figure out how the last 2 work

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Thanks druuna.