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eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

using sed or awk to keep text within quotes

how would i accomplish this, i want to strip everything in a line and keep quoted text in within simple quotes: like this

'some text here'

would end up as

some text here

im lost due to the nature of single quotes

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: using sed or awk to keep text within quotes

echo "no print 1 'print 1' no print 2 'print 2' no print 3" | sed -n "s/[^']*'\([^']*\)'[^']*/\1/gp"

eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

Re: using sed or awk to keep text within quotes

echo "no print 1 'print 1' no print 2 'print 2' no print 3" | sed -n "s/[^']*'\([^']*\)'[^']*/\1/gp"

thanks, i found it really difficult to escape the ' char this works ok

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Last edited by eldragon (2009-04-01 15:30:51)