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Explore Stack Internal You don't have to cut by -character count. Instead, you can cut on a specified -delimiter.
grep '^<gc type="global"' <infile | cut -d\" -f4 80 81 82 That gets only the 4th "-delimited field on a line. And so that field can be as many characters - or digits if you prefer - as you like, so long as none of them are double-quotes.
But you don't have to do that either if you want the whole line.
sed -e'/^<gc type="global"/!{g;/./q;d;}' -e'h;$!d' <infile You don't have to cut by -character count. Instead, you can cut on a specified -delimiter.
grep '^<gc type="global"' <infile | cut -d\" -f4 80 81 82 That gets only the 4th "-delimited field on a line. And so that field can be as many characters - or digits if you prefer - as you like, so long as none of them are double-quotes.
You don't have to cut by -character count. Instead, you can cut on a specified -delimiter.
grep '^<gc type="global"' <infile | cut -d\" -f4 80 81 82 That gets only the 4th "-delimited field on a line. And so that field can be as many characters - or digits if you prefer - as you like, so long as none of them are double-quotes.
But you don't have to do that either if you want the whole line.
sed -e'/^<gc type="global"/!{g;/./q;d;}' -e'h;$!d' <infile You don't have to cut by -character count. Instead, you can cut on a specified -delimiter.
grep '^<gc type="global"' <infile | cut -d\" -f4 80 81 82 That gets only the 4th "-delimited field on a line. And so that field can be as many characters - or digits if you prefer - as you like, so long as none of them are double-quotes.