Timeline for Extract Values from Formatted Text
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| Jan 15, 2016 at 13:01 | comment | added | terdon♦ | @laktak yes, grep -E (egrep is deprecated) will work. OSX awk won't since it's not GNU awk. I have no idea why it wouldn't work for you on Ubuntu which does use GNU awk. I just tried on an Ubuntu VM and it worked as expected. Anyway, see updated answer for a more portable solution. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 13:00 | history | edited | terdon♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 222 characters in body |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 12:02 | comment | added | laktak | Nope. Can't say what's wrong with it. Probably the awk version. egrep '^(\S+\s*){1,4}:' file shows the correct output. With awk it doesn't work on OS X either. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 23:32 | comment | added | terdon♦ | @laktak sorry, I'm on mobile so I can't test and can't really chat. Try replacing the \S+ with [^ +]. I don't see why it wouldn't work on an Ubuntu system though. Could you have spaces at the beginning of the line? | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 21:35 | comment | added | laktak | No, awk -F': *' '/^(\S+\s*){1,4}:/{gsub(/ /,"_",$1);print $1"=\""$2"\""}' file gives me no ouput (Ubuntu 15.10) | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 14:03 | comment | added | terdon♦ | @laktak there shouldn't be any output when you . $(awk ...) or eval $(awk ...). Does the awk command by itself return anything? I mean just awk -F': *' '/^(\S+\s*){1,4}:/{gsub(/ /,"_",$1);print $1"=\""$2"\""}' file. If not, please ping me (@terdon) in /dev/chat and we can figure it out. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 13:54 | comment | added | laktak | It works with awk -F': *' '(NF == 2) && ($1 ~ /^[A-Za-z0-9 ]+$/) {gsub(/ /,"_",$1);print $1"=\""$2"\""}' though. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 13:54 | comment | added | laktak | Do I need a special version of awk for this? I get no output with your sample. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 13:25 | comment | added | laktak | That's a neat solution. Thanks for the explanation! | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 13:23 | vote | accept | laktak | ||
| Jan 14, 2016 at 10:42 | history | answered | terdon♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |