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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed, grep, awk, regex -- extracting a matched substring from a file/string Post 302074402 by vino on Tuesday 23rd of May 2006 07:58:39 AM
Old 05-23-2006
How about

Code:
sed -n -e "s_.*a href=.\([^\"]*[Tt][Aa][Ll][Kk][.]*[Bb][Aa][Cc][Kk].[Mm][Pp]3\).*_\1_p"

It says, capture everything within the quotes until you encounter .mp3 or .MP3 or anything similiar. It should handle "talk back", "talkback" and is case insensitive.
 

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