I have copy-pasted the JSON structure into a .txt file for my input file (I will have a number of these).
I'm looking for the "Name" text between "start" and "end", my input file is large and the parts I want to extract from look like this:
Here: "start",
title: "Name",
type: "end",
words: "more words",
I've tried the following but it doesn't work.
input.txt < sed -n '/^start",$/,/^type: "end"$/p' data > output.txt
Thank you.
data.txt
...
Here: "start",
title: "Name",
type: "end",
words: "more words",
...
Sed command:
$ sed -n '/start",$/,/ *type: "end",$/p' data.txt
Output:
Here: "start",
title: "Name",
type: "end",
^ won't match the start line since there's a "Here:" before it and "end"$ won't match the end line since there's a comman after the last quotation mark.
With the sample input you posted this is all you need:
$ awk -F\" '/end/{print t} {t=$2}' file
Name
If that's not adequate then come up with more truly representative sample input that includes the cases you think will be difficult for a script to deal with. It's always trivial to extract the text you want and MUCH harder to not extract text you don't want.
