[whatever84]

Hello everybody,

I have a file with bulk of data. I need to search for specific pattern, e.g. the below shot shows
a part from the file that contains the words am searching for:

POST Data (example.com): item=car&price=12345&

grep -i "&price="

return the lines that contains "&price="

I don't have much experience in this, but what I am trying to do is to look for the lines that
contain item and price words, and displays the following:

item=car
price=12345

[vibhor_agarwalin]

You can use "cut" with your desired delimeter and parse the line.

[whatever84]

vibhor_agarwalin, on Apr 13 2009, 09:20 AM, said:

You can use "cut" with your desired delimeter and parse the line.

Could you explain further, please? Is cut a different program? or did you mean
to use it in parallel with grep?

[vibhor_agarwalin]

echo 'item=car&price=12345&' | cut -d'=' -f2 | cut -d'&' -f1

Will give you car.
You can construct similar sentences. Yes this will be pre-fixed by grep command as you want to search for "car" & "price"

[vidyadhar]

you can use awk to search them..

awk '/item/&&/price/{print}' filename

and if your pattern is fixed

awk -F"[:&]"  '/item/&&/price/{print $2"\n"$3}' filename

[edidataguy]

Assuming there is always a space before "price" and there is never space after that.

echo 'POST Data (example.com): item=car&price=12345&' | sed 's/.* \(.*\).$/\1/; s/\&/\n/'