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Reputation: 149

Cut text in set of two word

I used jq to extract value from JSON file I stored the values in on variable as string

var=$(Jq-command)
# var now contain
# "Serge" "Haroche" "David J." "Wineland"

I want a script to split this string every two word and create new lines, so i can't get as output

output:
Serge Haroche
David J Wineland

I'm kinda new im not really confortable with awk/sed and i couldn't with cut.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 181

Answers (1)

al76
al76

Reputation: 764

try this sed script

var='"Serge" "Haroche" "David J." "Wineland"'
echo $var|sed -n 's/"\([^"]\+\)" "\([^"]\+\)" */\1 \2\n/gp'

Output

Serge Haroche
David J. Wineland

to remove last \n

echo -n $var|sed -n 's/"\([^"]\+\)" "\([^"]\+\)" */\1 \2\n/gp'

Upvotes: 2

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