Modify awk statement

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

how do i modify the following:

echo "jaba law welcome no jaba law sorry now jaba law" | awk '{s+=gsub(/jaba law/,"jaba law")} END {print s}'

so that it shows me the actual phrase it found matching the strings i specified?

something like:

jaba law jaba law jaba law
2

Not sure this will work on all sed versions, but try (inverting the meaning of fields and field separators):

$ echo "jaba law welcome no jaba law sorry now jaba law" | awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS="jaba law"} {$2=" ";$3=" "}1'
3

this could work. how can i use it on something lke this.

echo "jabalaw--sony--4444 marykate--toshiba--244444 mark--sanyo--3334343"

notice how each is separated by a space. how do i grab the section that's for marykate and then show only that section?

meaning,

if i run:

echo "jabalaw--sony--4444 marykate--toshiba--244444 mark--sanyo--3334343" | awk or sed or egrep "marykate"

i would like to get the whole thing thats just for marykate, so in this case it'll be:

marykate--toshiba--244444

another example:

echo "jabalaw--sony--4444 marykate--toshiba--244444 mark--sanyo--3334343" | awk or sed or egrep "mark"

in this case, i'd like to get back:

mark--sanyo--3334343
4 
awk '{ for(N=1; N<=NF; N++) if ($N ~ P) print $N }' P="^mark-"
5

This is entirely different from your first request! Nevertheless, try

$ echo "jabalaw--sony--4444 marykate--toshiba--244444 mark--sanyo--3334343" | awk '/^mark/' RS=" " 
mark--sanyo--3334343