Mon, 21 Jan 2008, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Hello List!
>
> Through many pains I got the text file with some data and for plotting
> purposes I need to separate it into files... with minimal knowledge on bash
> scripting I was thinking maybe you could help me to figure that out... (I
> tried to sort that out by hand, but then realised it will probably take a
> month...)
>
> I have special lines in my text file so, I'd love to be able to script
> something like this
>
> read through lines
> if come to the string "bla bla bla"{
> take the number after ": " on that string and put in file
> named "something"...
Can be done in different ways, of course.
With grep and cut:
grep "bla bla bla" file |cut -d: -f2 >> something
With awk:
awk -F: '/"bla bla bla"/ {print $2}' file >>something
with Bash:
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=:
while read Line;do
set -- $Line
case $1 in
"bla bla bla") echo $2 >>something ;;
esac
done <file
IFS=$OLDIFS
Theo
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