On 27 May 2017 at 22:27, bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > I've got a file.. with a bunch of lines looking like: > > $bookVariable['asu']['Fall-2016']='link'; > $bookVariable['lehmancuny']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $bookVariable['uvu']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $bookVariable['wmich']['Summer II 2017']='1'; > $bookVariable['wmich']['Summer I 2017']='1'; > $bookVariable['dmacc']['Summer-2017']='1'; > $bookVariable['sdmesa']['Summer-2017']='link'; > > I''m looking to get the "text" inside the 1st group of brackets [] > > > The following sed only gets the 1st 3 lines.. and it doesn't completely work. > > sed -n "s/^.*bookVariable\['\(\S*\)'].*$/\1/p" foo.txt > > asu']['Fall-2016 > lehmancuny']['Fall-2016 > uvu']['Fall-2016 > Any reason why you can't just use cut? cut -d"'" -f2 foo.txt (-d is you singler quote delimiter - ' - surrounded by double quotes - " - ) If you want the quotes as well, then: cut -d] -f1 foo.txt | cut -d[ -f2 -- Andy The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
