Hi,
I have a shell script that gives output in the form :
abc/xyz/delays/A1toB1_000000
pqr/trf/delays/AtoB_45678567
etc
I need tget the pattern A1toB1 , AtoB etc from this output.
Can some one please tell me how this can be done.
Thanks,
Himi
Are their positions constant. I mean does it come after the specific number of "/"
yes , the positions are constant
suppose output will be stored in a file called file1.
execute the following command :
awk -F"/" '{print $4}' file1 cut -d"_" -f1
Actualy the complete command is something like this :
ls -a | grep delays
this produces the following output:
abc/xyz/delays/A1toB1_000000
pqr/trf/delays/AtoB_45678567
etc
I want that the output displayed on running the script to be :
A1toB1
AtoB
and so on.
awk -F"/" '{print $4}' file1 | cut -d"_" -f1
ls -a | grep delays | awk -F"/" '{print $4}' file1 | cut -d"_" -f1
so i need to store the output of grep in a file called file1?
Its working great.. thanks!!!! 
ls -a | grep delays | nawk -F'[/_]' '{print $4}' filename
nawk -F'[/_]' '/delays/{print $4}' text