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Old 11-12-2008   #1 (permalink)
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How to extract pattern substring from a line
How can I extract the

Quote:
/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/u/underwater-doubilet-697088-ga.jpg
part from the line:

Quote:
<td class="body"><a href="/photography/enlarge/underwater-doubilet_pod_image.html"><img alt="Photo: Eel blenny peeking out of coral" src="/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/u/underwater-doubilet-697088-ga.jpg"></a></td>
?

Note: The pattern string is constant upto
Quote:
/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/
The rest of it changes.

Thank you.
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With cut I managed that:

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echo $line|cut -d= -f5|cut -d\" -f2
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echo $line | awk -F 'src="|"></a>' '{print $2}'
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