I have a file with the content shown below:
***************Encrypted String*************** ezF7LcHO0Zlb+8kkBeIwtA== ********************************************** I need to get only encrypted password from above. I used Google to search for an answer, and I got this example (below), but it didn't work:
sed -n '/***************Encrypted String***************/,/**********************************************/p' $file I tried but it didn't work
The problem here is probably that * is a Regular Expression operator, so you have to escape it \* for it to be treated as a literal. Your examples and suggestions referencing the literals BEGIN and END would all have failed without this adaptation.
***************Encrypted String*************** ezF7LcHO0Zlb+8kkBeIwtA== **********************************************
To extract the second line you could use either of these:
sed -n '0,/\*Encrypted String\*/d;p;q' "$file" sed -n 2p "$file" The first matches on *Encrypted String* and then prints the next line. Notice that the * characters are written as \* to ensure they are treated as literal asterisks. The second just prints line two of the file.
