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Name: sunilgeek
Date: October 15, 2008 at 18:34:12 Pacific
OS: Linux
CPU/Ram: 2.5 GHz, 1 GB Ram
Comment:

Hi All,

I have a file with content as given below.

/abc-1/*"/>
/abc-2/*"/>
/abc-3/*"/>
/abc-4/*"/>

I want output as :
abc-1
abc-2
abc-3
abc-4

I tried many awk and sed combination, "/" is road blocker for me.
Please help me.



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Response Number 1
Name: klint
Date: October 16, 2008 at 01:32:36 Pacific
Reply:

It doesn't have to be a /. Try sed with another character, like #, instead of /.


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Response Number 2
Name: ghostdog
Date: October 16, 2008 at 02:43:40 Pacific
Reply: 


# awk -F"/" '{print $2}' file
abc-1
abc-2
abc-3
abc-4


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Response Number 3
Name: sunilgeek
Date: October 16, 2008 at 21:48:43 Pacific
Reply:

thanks so much ghostdog ! .. that worked !


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