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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to extract text from string using regular expressions Post 302248337 by jtung on Friday 17th of October 2008 10:28:43 AM
Old 10-17-2008
ghostdog, that works perfectly. except, i have other file names that DON'T have the S after the 4 numbers. How could I retrieve the first 4 numbers after the C (regardless of what comes after the numbers?)

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Originally Posted by ghostdog74
Code:
# filename="/output/R34/2005_13_R34_C1042S_T83_CRFTXT_20081015.txt"
# echo $filename|sed 's/.*_C\(....\)S_.*/\1/'
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wnnstat(1)							   User Commands							wnnstat(1)

NAME
wnnstat - Print the status of Wnn6 Kana-Kanji conversion server SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/wnnstat [-w] [-e] [-E] [-f] [-F] [-d] [-D] [-J | -U | -S | -T] [-L language] [hostname] DESCRIPTION
wnnstat prints the status of Wnn6 Kana-Kanji conversion server (jserver) running on the specified host (hostname). If the host name is omitted, one from which wnnstat was launched is assumed. OPTIONS
The following options are available. -w Prints the user names, host names, socket numbers, and environment numbers. -e Prints the environment numbers, environment names, and number of references. -E Prints the environment numbers, environment names, number of references, auxiliary words, number of dictionaries (dictionary numbers) and file names. -f Prints the dictionary file identifier (Fid), type, location, number of references, and file names. -F Prints the dictionary file identifier (Fid), type, location, number of references, and file names. -d Prints the dictionary numbers, types, nicknames, the dictionary file identifier (Fid), and file names. -D Prints the dictionary numbers, types, number of words, update disables, frequency file update disables, usage disables, priori- ties, [nicknames], the dictionary file identifier (Fid), file names, and [(frequency: frequency_file_name)] [password, (fre- quency_password)]. -U Prints in Japanese EUC (UJIS). -J Prints in JIS code. -S Prints in SJIS code. -T Prints in UTF--8 code. -L languaPrints the status of the server that supports the language specified with language . -L ja should be specified for Solaris (Japa- nese version) releases. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability |SUNWjwncu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
jserver(1M) SunOS 5.10 2 Mar 1998 wnnstat(1)
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