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Old 08-31-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by baghera View Post
But if there is more numbers on that line for example:

how_old_r_u:45782<br>APPLY:[30000,t3,t4]:Plummet

It seems when I run the command

Code:
grep -oE "[[:digit:]]{1,}" input.txt
I also get the other numbers is there some way to get only 45782?
Which is why the sed alternative was provided. Did you try that ? Does that give you what you are looking for ?