Question about sed

I have thousands of lines as:

TITLE = "Agent.Daily.AccessDenials", UNITS = "Runs",HISTORY_TIME =
"600", HISTORY_SPAN = 0, HISTORY_LEVEL = False,

Where I need to delete all the info that follows the "UNITS" match.

I wonder if there is a way to do this using sed or awk.

Any help would be very helpful.

Regards.

Raul.

Raul B <rnrodrig@todito.com> wrote:
> I have thousands of lines as:
>
> TITLE = "Agent.Daily.AccessDenials", UNITS = "Runs",HISTORY_TIME =
> "600", HISTORY_SPAN = 0, HISTORY_LEVEL = False,
>
> Where I need to delete all the info that follows the "UNITS" match.
>
> I wonder if there is a way to do this using sed or awk.


Do you mean:
awk '/UNITS/{
match("^.*UNITS = \"[^\"]*\",$0)
print substr($0,1,RLENGTH)
}

Raul B wrote:

> I have thousands of lines as:
>
> TITLE = "Agent.Daily.AccessDenials", UNITS = "Runs",HISTORY_TIME =
> "600", HISTORY_SPAN = 0, HISTORY_LEVEL = False,
>
> Where I need to delete all the info that follows the "UNITS" match.
>
> I wonder if there is a way to do this using sed or awk.

It's easiest in sed:

sed 's/, UNITS =.*$//'

Ed.

In article <a7cbebc9.0407290905.2b81d3b4@posting.google.com>,
Raul B <rnrodrig@todito.com> wrote:
>I have thousands of lines as:
>
>TITLE = "Agent.Daily.AccessDenials", UNITS = "Runs",HISTORY_TIME =
>"600", HISTORY_SPAN = 0, HISTORY_LEVEL = False,
>
>Where I need to delete all the info that follows the "UNITS" match.
>
>I wonder if there is a way to do this using sed or awk.
>
>Any help would be very helpful.

How about using the commas and deleting everything from the second
comma on:

sed 's/\([^,]*,[^,]*\).*/\1/' infile


Chuck Demas

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In article <cebjm8$6pc@netnews.proxy.lucent.com>,
Ed Morton  <morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote:
>
>
>Raul B wrote:
> 
>
>It's easiest in sed:
>
>sed 's/, UNITS =.*$//'
>
>	Ed.

But, of course, completely off topic for this newsgroup.

Win some, lose some.

Thanks a lot four help, the solutions that says:

sed 's/, UNIT = .*$//'

was the simplest and the easiest.

Again thanks for your help.

In article <a7cbebc9.0407301339.2d13ec37@posting.google.com>,
Raul B <rnrodrig@todito.com> wrote:
>Thanks a lot four help, the solutions that says:
>
>sed 's/, UNIT = .*$//'
>
>was the simplest and the easiest.

sed 's/,.*//'

is simpler given what you seem to want.


Chuck Demas

--
Eat Healthy        |   _ _   | Nothing would be done at all,
Stay Fit           |   @ @   | If a man waited to do it so well,
Die Anyway         |    v    | That no one could find fault with it.
demas@theworld.com |  \___/  | http://world.std.com/~cpd

Charles Demas wrote:
> In article <a7cbebc9.0407301339.2d13ec37@posting.google.com>,
> Raul B <rnrodrig@todito.com> wrote:
> 
>
>
> sed 's/,.*//'
>
> is simpler given what you seem to want.
>
>
> Chuck Demas
>

Good point, maybe I could even redeem myself from earlier with a topical
response ;-):

awk -F, '{print $1}'

but I just can't resist a final OT one too:

cut -d, -f1

For the OP - questions about sed (or cut or any other non-awk tool) are
better directed to comp.unix.shell.

Sorry,

Ed.