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Old 04-12-2009
Extracting Data Using SED
Given the following text in a file named extract.txt:
listenPort:=25
smtpDestination:=2
enableSSL:=

I am trying to extract only the value 2 following smtpDestination:=

Someone had suggested I use:
sed -e "s/^smtpDestination:=\(.*\)$/\1/" extract.txt
but this returns:
listenPort:=25
2

Can someone help me correct the RegEx to correctly return only the data I need?

Thanks for any help.

Alex
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Old 04-12-2009
cat file | grep smtpDestination | cut -d '=' -f2
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Old 04-12-2009
Wonderful!
Thanks!
 
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