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Re: Regular Expression Search and parse?



 Mark Woodward wrote: 
> So, if I have file with a lot of lines that look like this: 
> 
> Title: The Long and Winding Road [ISBN:123456] 
> Descr: A boring book about boring roads 
> Author: A dull cab driver 

How about this: 
# cat books.txt | grep '^Title\: ' | sed 's/.*\[//' | sed 's/\]//' 

redirect that to an output file using " > isbns.txt" and you have your 
ISBN numbers. If you just want the numbers, and not the "ISBN: ", then 
change the first call to sed like this: sed 's/.*\[ISBN\://' 


You could probably combine the last 2 seds, but this should do what you 
asked. You could also make it some sort of alias with $1, $2, and $3 
inputs, and do something like: 
cat file | myreplacer '^Title\: ' 's/.*\[//' 's/\]//' > outfile.txt 

Grant M. 
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