On 17Jan2009 20:36, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Dave Stevens wrote: | > I have a sequence of lines of ASCII text of varying length, each of which ends | > with an integer. Anyone have a quick and dirty way of getting these lines | > copied to a new file with only the last number on each line of the new file? | | How about: | grep -o -E [[:digit:]]+$ foo.txt > new_file.txt I see your grep and raise you a sed: sed 's/.*[^0-9]//' foo.txt >new_file.txt Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
