On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: >> sed s/.*:\([[:xdigit:]]*\)\\.*/\1/ > > That looks good to me, though I assume he meant to show that > expression in single quotes.
Nope. The Windows NT shell (CMD.EXE) has different meta-characters from Bourne and company. In particular, asterisk (*), backslash (\), and square brackets ([]) are *not* shell meta-characters. > Also, I can't remember if those character class notations count > as Extended Regular Expressions but ... The sed from unxutils apparently only supports Basic Regular Expressions. At least, it doesn't recognize the + one-or-more modifier. It does recognize the named character classes, though. I did run my command line on a whole one test case. ;-) According to a random "sed" man page I found on the web, the named character classes are part of POSIX BREs. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
