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Old 07-29-2011
Java Listing numeric strings alone
i have a file called 'test.txt' which contains the below data.

abc123
123445
123abc
23224q

From the above data, i want to display the line which contains only numeric [0-9]. So i have tried the below commands with sed

Code:
sed -n '/^[0-9]$/p' test.txt
 
sed '/^[0-9]$/!d' test.txt

But it doesn't work as expected.
Please help me to achieve this

thanks
Last edited by pludi; 07-29-2011 at 04:03 AM..
# 2  
Old 07-29-2011
Code:
sed -n '/^[0-9][0-9]*$/p' test.t

# 3  
Old 07-29-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by yazu
Code:
sed -n '/^[0-9][0-9]*$/p' test.t

May i know what's the difference between sed -n '/^[0-9][0-9]*$/p' test.t and sed -n '/^[0-9]*$/p' test.t

In the first one no empty line is returned at the end.
In the second one, there is an empty line is returned at the end

May i know why?

Thanks
# 4  
Old 07-29-2011
'(ANITHING)*' means 0 or more matches with ANITHING. So it matches with an empty string.
# 5  
Old 07-29-2011
Thanks Yazu!!
It works great!
 
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