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Old 06-10-2008
cut numbers from file

I have a file name "terminal.out"
contents of the file:
<Value>SYcadChangeOrder:3974</Value>
<Value>SYcadChangeOrder:3975</Value>
<Value>SYcadChangeOrder:3976</Value>
<Value>SYcadChangeOrder:3977</Value>
<Value>SYcadChangeOrder:3978</Value>
<Value>SYcadChangeOrder:3978</Value>
<Value>SYcadChangeOrder:3979</Value>

i need to extract only the numbers.Cn somebody help me with this ?
# 2  
Old 06-10-2008
cat terminal.out | cut -d":" -f2 | cut -d"<" -f1


Thanks
Penchal
# 3  
Old 06-10-2008
Code:
 awk -F'[<|:]' '{print $3}' file

# 4  
Old 06-10-2008
With Sed:

Code:
sed 's/.*:\([0-9]*\)<.*/\1/' infile

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