kenta writes: > Otherwise, I want as an end result: > > A1234567890B > C9234567890E > A8234567890B > F7234567890D
How about?: sed 's/^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9]*:\([A-Z][0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]\).*/\1/' I've made the regexp here a little bit tight in order to prevent false positives. Regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E Meet me by the knuckles alumni.unh.edu!kdc of the skinny-bone tree. http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ -- Tom Waits _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
