Gnuwin Grep only value

Question

Example I have ver.txt

#tac
version=xxx

I want to display only xxx.

I can try grep, sed, gawk.Just want to learn how to make it.

I didn't try something special.Found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1247812/im-stuck-in-trying-to-grep-anything-just-after-name few solutions there.They were for linux.Anyways tried all of them but not working. — KaptaPrism, Oct 05 '13 at 14:00

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '13 at 13:43

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One of many ways is to use grep interpreting the pattern as a perl regular expression, and use a positive look-behind:

grep -oP '(?<=version=).*' infile

answered Oct 05 '13 at 13:43

Birei

glenn jackman · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-05T14:09:23.283

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the awk answer:

awk -F = '$1=="version" {print $2}' file

Sed

sed -n '/^version=/s///p' file

If you are running these commands from a windows command prompt, then single quote is not a valid grouping character, you may have to do this

awk -F = "$1==\"version\" {print $2}" file

edited Oct 05 '13 at 14:09

answered Oct 05 '13 at 13:45

glenn jackman

Getting Unknown Command : `'' error. – KaptaPrism Oct 05 '13 at 13:51
For what? awk? Then use gawk. – glenn jackman Oct 05 '13 at 14:00
Getting this error, awk : ^invalid char ''' in expression – KaptaPrism Oct 05 '13 at 14:06
Oh dam, I found the whole problem.Show extensions options closed.I keep renaming file ver.txt.txt it worked very well.Thank you – KaptaPrism Oct 05 '13 at 14:26

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