Cameron Simpson wrote: > 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 I see your sed and raise you an optimized but less readable grep. grep -oE [0-9]+$ foo.txt>new_file.txt Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines