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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed extract substring on (OS X) Post 302204839 by mlommel on Thursday 12th of June 2008 04:00:57 PM
Old 06-12-2008
Question Sed extract substring on (OS X)

On OS 10.4.11

I have filenames like:

670711 SA T2 v1-1_DS_EF.doc
CT_670520 AM T1 v1-2_DS_EF.doc
CT_670716 - 2 SA T4 v1-2_DS_EF.doc
CT_670713 SA T3 v1-1_DS_EF.doc
670421 PA DYP1 v1-1_DS_EF.doc
CT_670425 PA DYP2 v1-1_DS_EF.doc
CT_670107 RA T3 v1-2_DS_EF.doc
CT_670521 AM T2 v1-2_DS_EF.doc
CT_670718-1 SA T5 v1-2_DS_EF.doc

I want extract the substrings in bold and assign to a variable.

I'm trying this:
Code:
datedid=`echo $tname | sed 's/\([[:digit:]]\{6\}[-]?[[:digit:]]?\)/\1/'`

But this simply returns $tname unaffected.

I have also tried:
Code:
datedid=`echo $tname | sed -E 's/\([[:digit:]]\{6\}[-]?[[:digit:]]?\)/\1/'`

But gives and error that "\1 not defined in the RE".

Have spent the morning googling and reading, but missing something here...Any sed gurus out there?
 

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ISWDIGIT(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       ISWDIGIT(3)

NAME
iswdigit - test for decimal digit wide character SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h> int iswdigit(wint_t wc); DESCRIPTION
The iswdigit() function is the wide-character equivalent of the isdigit(3) function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "digit". The wide-character class "digit" is a subclass of the wide-character class "xdigit", and therefore also a subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", of the wide-character class "graph" and of the wide-character class "print". Being a subclass of the wide character class "print", the wide-character class "digit" is disjoint from the wide-character class "cntrl". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", the wide-character class "digit" is disjoint from the wide-character class "space" and its subclass "blank". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", the wide-character class "digit" is disjoint from the wide-character class "punct". The wide-character class "digit" is disjoint from the wide-character class "alpha" and therefore also disjoint from its subclasses "lower", "upper". The wide-character class "digit" always contains exactly the digits '0' to '9'. RETURN VALUE
The iswdigit() function returns nonzero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "digit". Otherwise it returns zero. CONFORMING TO
C99. NOTES
The behavior of iswdigit() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. SEE ALSO
isdigit(3), iswctype(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
1999-07-25 ISWDIGIT(3)
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