cut numbers from file - Shell Programming and Scripting

giri_luck · #1 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008

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 ?

penchal_boddu · #2 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008

cat terminal.out | cut -d":" -f2 | cut -d"<" -f1

Thanks
Penchal

danmero · #3 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008

Code:

 awk -F'[<|:]' '{print $3}' file

radoulov · #4 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008

With Sed:

Code:

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

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