[Gllug] Parsing strings in a shell script

[Mark Hill]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:18:01PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> 
> but I can't work out how to strip everything except the artist name 
> (leaving just David Bowie) I figured I could use:
> 
> dylan at scooby(1):/media/server/music/test> ogginfo "David Bowie - Blue 
> Jean.ogg" | grep ARTIST | sed 's/        ARTIST=//'
>         ARTIST=David Bowie
> dylan at scooby(1):/media/server/music/test>
> 
> but no!

I think something like the following would work:
$ ogginfo track01.ogg | grep ARTIST | sed s/^.*ARTIST=//

Did you use preceding spaces in your sed expression? If so, I think that
might have been the problem with your example. The output given by
ogginfo uses a preceding /tab/. 

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Mark Hill
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