Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> I see your grep and raise you a sed: >> >> sed 's/.*[^0-9]//' foo.txt >new_file.txt >> > What happens if there is a number in the middle of the line of text, > as well as at the end? Wouldn't that give you more text then desired?
No, because .* is greedy. The .* will consume all but the very last non-numeric character (including numeric chars before the last non-numeric), then [^0-9] will consume the last non-numeric char. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
