On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:56:16PM -0800, Jim C wrote:
> I have a list of positive integers of which I only want the first one.
> They are of arbitrary size. How can I cut the rest of them off?
> I've been trying to write a regular expression for this using sed or awk.

#!/bin/sh
LIST="42 666 1776 2001"
echo $LIST | sed -e 's/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'

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