Re: Scanning a file for a match, printing different part of the line when found.

You can do this sort of thing with a one-liner. You don't specify what you want to match in much detail, but here is an example:

perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /Name:\s*(.+?)\b/' search.txt

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Re^2: Scanning a file for a match, printing different part of the line when found. by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 26, 2011 at 20:21 UTC
Since OP wasn't specific about how "Name" is constructed, ++ But note that this will not satisfy the op by printing the (whole) name field, if "Name" is comprised of more than one word (for example: `Firstname MI Lastname`), because of the `\b`	[reply] [d/l]