Get info between ' '

[Bootstrap]

Hello. I'm need help trimming of some single quotes. Not sure how to handle this. Here's what I'm doing.

file core|awk '{print $5}' > coreinfo.out

This leaves me with output similar to:

'name.1.0.0'

How can I further trim of the ticks? I just want the info in between the single quotes for use in another script.

Thanks in advance.

Robert

 

[marsd]

All awk solution:
BEGIN {
cc = sprintf("%c", 0x27)
}
{
gsub(cc,"",$5)
print $5
}'

 

[J1mbo]

Assuming your output looks like this:

dump 123456789 caused by 'name.1.0.0'

You can use 'cut' with the single quote as the field
separator and print field two:

file core | cut -d"'" -f2

This prints name.1.0.0

-jim

 

[Chapter11]

cat/echo your input through
[tt]tr -d "'"[/tt]

 

[Bootstrap]

Thanks to all three of you. I was not using cut properly and didn't think to us tr. Thanks again.

Robert