How to return only part of a line with egrep
I have a program that returns something like this:
status: playing
artURL: http://beta.grooveshark.com/static/amazonart/m3510922.jpg
estimateDuration: 29400
calculatedDuration: 293000
albumName: This Is It
position: 7291.065759637188
artistName: Michael Jackson
trackNum: 13
vote: 0
albumID: 3510922
songName: Billie Jean
artistID: 39
songID: 24684170
I'm looking to extract the artist name and the song name from all this and I figured egrep would be a nice way to do it. The problem is that I have no idea how to return only part of the matching l开发者_运维知识库ine and not the whole line.
egrep "artistName"
obviously returns
artistName: Michael Jackson
I only need it to return
Michael Jackson
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
You'll need to pipe the output to another program, like cut:
egrep ^artistName | cut -d ' ' -f 2-
Or you could do the whole thing in awk or sed:
awk -F ': ' '/^artistName/ {print $2}'
sed -n '/^artistName/ {s/.*: //;p;}'
With GNU grep
which supports Perl regular expressions:
grep -Po '(?<=^artistName: ).*' filename
your data is structured and has a distinct field delimiter (:), so you can use awk
awk '$1~/^(artistName|songName)/{print $2}' file
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