10 Awk Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls

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October 24, 2008, 08:57

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That is easily done with gawk, see the last tip. You could do eg 

gawk -v RS='abc([0-9]+)def' 'RT{gsub(/[^0-9]/,"",RT)print RT}

Of course, the exact regexes used for RS and in the gsub vary from time to time depending on what you want to achieve. Another solution is using gensub(), again from gawk.

Unfortunately, standard awk regexes lack backreferences, so getting what you want using standard awk would not be easy.

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