Try this. It uses sed to remove everything after the colon that's not a digit.
Ken, many thanks for that.
I did try the command, and it removes most characters trailing AFTER the number, except "_" underscore; however the characters BEFORE the digit pattern are still there, as can be seen from sample output:
So now what is left is to remove the noise before the number.
Perhaps there is a way to rather extract "only just what is a 7 digit pattern", rather than provide for all the possible trailing or preceding symbols? The files are obtained from non-English languages so there may be funny non-printing symbols that need to be removed.
I have a log file that ends in a ".xxx" where xxx are digits but I don't necessarily know what digits they are. The log file rotates automatically and is auto-incrementing - starting at .001.
So the example would be:
file-name.005
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I have a shell script that uses wget to grab a bunch of html from a url.
URL_DATA=`wget -qO - "$URL1"`
I now have a string $URL_DATA that I need to pull a substring out of..say I had the following in my string
<p><a href="/scooby/929011567.html">Dog pictures check them out! -</a><font... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I've been searching for a quick way to do this with sed, but to no avail.
I have a file containing a long series of (windows) file paths that are separated by the pattern '@'. I would like to extract each file path so that I can later assign a variable to each path.
Here is the file:... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
i have such string stored in a variable
var1 = 00000120
i want the o/p
var1 = 120
is it possible to have such o/p in ksh/bash ...
thanx in advance for the help
sonu (3 Replies)
Hello,
I need to construct a pattern to match the below string (especially the timestamp at the beginning)
20101222100436_temp.dat
The below pattern works _temp.dat
However I am trying find if there are any other better representations.
I tried {14}, but it did not work.
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I would like to extract a digit from $0 starting 2,30 to 3,99 or 2.30 to 3.99
Can somebody fix this?
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abcdefg sdlfkj 3,29 g. lasdfj
alsdfjasl 2.86 gr. slkjds sldkd
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Hello,
I have a log file with logs such as
01/05/2017 10:23:41 : file.log.38: database error, MODE=SINGLE, LEVEL=critical, STATE: 01170255 (mode main
how can i use perl to extract the 8-digit number below from the string
01170255
Thanks (7 Replies)
How can I extract digits at the end of a string in UNIX shell scripting or perl?
cat file.txt
abc_d123_4567.txt
A246_B789.txt
B123cc099.txt
a123_B234-012.txt
a13.txt
What can I do here? Many thanks.
cat file.txt | sed "s/.txt$//" | ........
4567
789
099
012
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Discussion started by: mingch
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
fgrep
fgrep(1) User Commands fgrep(1)NAME
fgrep - search a file for a fixed-character string
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/fgrep [-bchilnsvx] [-e pattern_list] [-f pattern-file] [pattern] [file...]
/usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep [-bchilnsvx] [-e pattern_list] [-f pattern-file] [pattern] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
The fgrep (fast grep) utility searches files for a character string and prints all lines that contain that string. fgrep is different from
grep(1) and from egrep(1) because it searches for a string, instead of searching for a pattern that matches an expression. fgrep uses a
fast and compact algorithm.
The characters $, *, [, ^, |, (, ), and are interpreted literally by fgrep, that is, fgrep does not recognize full regular expressions as
does egrep. These characters have special meaning to the shell. Therefore, to be safe, enclose the entire string within single quotes (').
If no files are specified, fgrep assumes standard input. Normally, each line that is found is copied to the standard output. The file name
is printed before each line that is found if there is more than one input file.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-b Precedes each line by the block number on which the line was found. This can be useful in locating block numbers by con-
text. The first block is 0.
-c Prints only a count of the lines that contain the pattern.
-e pattern_list Searches for a string in pattern-list. This is useful when the string begins with a -.
-f pattern-file Takes the list of patterns from pattern-file.
-h Suppresses printing of files when searching multiple files.
-i Ignores upper/lower case distinction during comparisons.
-l Prints the names of files with matching lines once, separated by new-lines. Does not repeat the names of files when the
pattern is found more than once.
-n Precedes each line by its line number in the file. The first line is 1.
-s Works silently, that is, displays nothing except error messages. This is useful for checking the error status.
-v Prints all lines except those that contain the pattern.
-x Prints only lines that are matched entirely.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file Specifies a path name of a file to be searched for the patterns. If no file operands are specified, the standard input will
be used.
/usr/bin/fgrep
pattern Specifies a pattern to be used during the search for input.
/usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep
pattern Specifies one or more patterns to be used during the search for input. This operand is treated as if it were specified as
-e pattern_list.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of fgrep when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of fgrep: LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 If any matches are found
1 If no matches are found
2 For syntax errors or inaccessible files, even if matches were found.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/bin/fgrep
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
/usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxcu4 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ed(1), egrep(1), grep(1), sed(1), sh(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), XPG4(5)NOTES
Ideally, there should be only one grep command, but there is not a single algorithm that spans a wide enough range of space-time tradeoffs.
Lines are limited only by the size of the available virtual memory.
/usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep
The /usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep utility is identical to /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -F (see grep(1)). Portable applications should use /usr/xpg4/bin/grep
-F.
SunOS 5.10 4 Oct 2002 fgrep(1)