awk program to select a portion of a line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all,
I am new to awk programs.I have a file like this

vjfavhjlaf<LTEXT>aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv</LTEXT>fAFdfdADfd
vjfavhjlaf<LTEXT>aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv</LTEXT>fAFdfdADfd
vjfavhjlaf<LTEXT>aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv</LTEXT>fAFdfdADfd
vjfavhjlaf<LTEXT>aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv</LTEXT>fAFdfdADfd
vjfavhjlaf<LTEXT>aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv</LTEXT>fAFdfdADfd

I want to select the text which comes between <LTEXT> and </LTEXT>
This is urgent...Please help..

Thanks in Advance

2

sed

# sed 's/.*<LTEXT>\(.*\)<\/LTEXT>.*/\1/g' file
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv

[n]awk

# awk '{gsub(/.*<LTEXT>|<\/LTEXT>.*/,"");print}' file
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv
aabcdfffvvbbxbcddjbv
3

Please try this

sed 's!\(.*\)LTEXT>\(.*\)</LTEXT\(.*\)!\2!' filename
4

:smiley:
Thanks....it worked..!!!!!