Re: File Manipulation in Linux

Marc Schwartz wrote:
Marc Schwartz wrote:

tman wrote:

I want to search a text file for certain words and pipe them to another file, each word on a seperate line. Here is an example:

File1.txt

index: A name_110022763763
index: A name_110022028309
index: A name_110022162534

I want to search File1.txt for all the name_xxxxxxxxxxxx words and pipe them to another file each word on a seperate line. The other file would look like this:

File2.txt

name_110022763763
name_110022028309
name_110022162534

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks


This should work:

$ cat File1.txt
index: A name_110022763763
index: A name_110022028309
index: A name_110022162534

$ grep -o "name.*" File1.txt > File2.txt

$ cat File2.txt
name_110022763763
name_110022028309
name_110022162534

See 'man grep' for further help.


Here is one more solution:

cut -d' ' -f3 File1.txt > File2.txt

This uses 'cut' to take the third field in each line, where a space character is the delimiter between fields.

See 'man cut'

HTH (also)

Marc

I would have offered to use a combo of 'awk' and 'grep'. One script and multiple output files
Of course, perl would also work quite nicely as well.
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