using sed
 

hi,


the problm is :

cat myfile:

ABCD/xyz.html
ABCD/prs.html
ABCD/qty.html
-----
---------
-----

upto 1000+ lines


I want to take only the fields xyz, prs, qty etc and save it in another file. How to do it using sed?


sed -n '/\//,/html/p' pathname
______ is not working.....


pls help

I'm not a sed expert either, but something like this would do the job.
Take a look at this guide for more.

Your sed regexp won't work because it prints lines "inclusive " of the strings.
Probably easier to substitute the said strings with "BLANK" and then pipe the output to a new file.
This works and I'm sure someone with much more experience in Sed can come out with a shorter one liner.

sed -e 's/ABCD\///g' -e 's/\.html//g' file > stripped_file

Which is basically what bathory's sed script does.

Hope this helps.
Uncle