I've been working with some large files and need to extract a piece of info, unfortunately there's a bunch of junk around the part that I want. Example: foofoo:A1234567890B\barbar foofoo:C9234567890E\barbar foofoo:A8234567890B\barbar foofoo:F7234567890D\barbar
What I had done the first pass to get what I wanted was to use sed and do a s/foofoo:// to get rid of the stuff in front, and then do the same for the \barbar in the back. However what would be easier for me is if I could just extract the pattern of [a-fA-F0-9] when they appear n times in a row. I couldn't seem to figure out if sed could display only the part I wanted. So I figured it'd be a better job for grep, however It appears that it's printing the entire matching line and I only want the match on the pattern to display. Otherwise, I want as an end result: A1234567890B C9234567890E A8234567890B F7234567890D Here's a caveat: I need to do this on a Windows box and am limited to using the ports of GNU utilities (using http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) otherwise I'd do this in perl and wouldn't be asking :/ I'm thinking maybe I'm just missing something simple here. Any quick solutions? My Google-fu is weak today. -Kenta _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
