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patrick
patrick

Reputation: 97

How to select specific string between a line with sed or awk, without print the whole line

I want to select a specific string within a line in an big txt file with sed or awk. But I got always the whole line and each line is 100.000+ characters long.

I got for example:

</div><div class="follow   withFollow" id="user-id-1234567890"> <a href="/app/users/id-1234567890/test/ </div><div class="follow   withFollow" id="user-id-0123456789"> <a href="/app/users/id-0123456789/test/" 12345678990 1234877890 1234767890 1245456780 123456790 withFollow" id="user-id-9873456789">

The only thing I want is the numbers in:

withFollow" id="user-id-1234567890">, withFollow" id="user-id-0123456789">, withFollow" id="user-id-9873456789">

output:

1234567890
0123456789
9873456789

I tried a lot like:

sed -n '/**user-id-**/,/**">**/p' FILE
awk '/**user-id-**/,/**">**/p' FILE
awk '/**user-id-**/,/**">**/p' FILE | grep -Eo "[0-9]{1,15}" > output.txt

With the last one I got only other numbers in the same line, so not only within id="user-id-1234567890">.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 217

Answers (1)

user000001
user000001

Reputation: 33307

You could use grep:

$ grep -oP 'user-id-\K[^"]*' file
1234567890
0123456789
9873456789

Or if you only want to match digits:

grep -oP 'user-id-\K\d*' file

Upvotes: 3

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