Kyle wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am trying to extract a substring from a string found in a file.
>
> The string is: *** End of TF0220 at Thu Jul 2 10:06:51 EST 2009 -
> RC = 0
>
> and the substring I want to extract is TF0220. This is a program name
> and the length of this name varies. In other words I want to extract
> whatever is between the words "of" and "at" in a script.
>
> How would I likely go about that please?
>
Something like this would work:
cat <file> | perl -nle
'if(/^\*\*\*\s+End\s+of\s+([\S]+)\s+at\s+.*/){print $1;}'
Fil
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