On Sat, 26 May 2007 07:32:32 -0500, Ed Morton
<morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote:
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> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> On 2007-05-25, apogeusistemas@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>Please, how can I find a specified string and print the next string ?
>>>I need find pineapple string and print next string in the line.
>>>Ex:
>>>Solaris> cat file1
>>>The strawberry and the pineapple are delicious.
>>>Solaris> ./script
>>>are
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>>
>> awk 'sub( /.*pineapple /,"") { print $1 }' file1
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> What if you were looking for "apple" and "pineapple" was in the input file?
You can use \< and \> to match word boundaries.
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