Re: extracting with sed

Mohammed Mehraj Hussain writes:

> SQL> _at_.[%OSAUTH_PREFIX_DOMAIN%]
> SP2-0310: unable to open file ".[FALSE]"
> SQL> spool off
>
>
> From this file i need to extract the text from the second line in between []
> (i.e) False and need to put this output to a another file...
>
> How can i do this with SED command

The following should do it:

sed -ne '/^SP2-[0-9]*:/s/^\(.*\[\)\(.*\)\(\].*\)$/\2/p' /tmp/f.log

It looks for a line starting with SP2 and a number, breaks that in three parts by taking [ and ] as delimiters and prints the second part.

Regards,
Stefan

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