| Re: Help extracting something from a string |
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Group: comp.unix.shell · Group Profile
Author: Edward RostenEdward Rosten Date: Nov 27, 2007 13:38
On Nov 20, 12:10 pm, bone gmail.com> wrote:> On Nov 19, 5:06 pm, Edward Rosten gmail.com> wrote:> $ echo ksdjfglsdfg"ddfd-dfdf-dfdf-dfdf-dfdf-dfdfd-dfdf.pdf"sdgsg| sed
> -ne's/.*\(".*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*\.pdf"\).*/\1/;tp;d;:p;p'
To see why this does not work, type:
echo ksdjfglsdfg"ddfd-dfdf-dfdf-dfdf-dfdf-dfdfd-dfdf.pdf"sdgsg
The shell is eating your "s
-Ed
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