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# 1  
Old 09-08-2008
Print last 2 letters in a word
Hi,

I have a file which has the below information

tm.orbit72
tm.orbit12
tm.orbit78
tm.orbitye

I want to print the last two letters in the above file. Please let me know how can i do that.
# 2  
Old 09-08-2008
With sed:

Code:
sed 's/.*\(..\)/\1/' file

Regards
# 3  
Old 09-08-2008
Hi,

It works great thanks.. I got a file like this.

orbits12
orbits13
oribits16

Now the output is like this
12
13
16

I want to also sum this all.
# 4  
Old 09-08-2008
Homework?
# 5  
Old 09-08-2008
No Homework..
No I am devoloping some script..which needs some input from this files.I dunno how to get this.. I know expr command but dont know how to sum the lines..
# 6  
Old 09-08-2008
Code:
perl -lne'
  print /(..)$/ and $t += $1;
    print $t if eof
    ' filename

For more than 2 digits:

Code:
perl -lne'
  print /(\d+)$/ and $t += $1;
    print $t if eof
    ' filename

Last edited by radoulov; 09-08-2008 at 07:17 PM..
# 7  
Old 09-08-2008
Shell
Thanks for the perl.

Can somebody help me using Shell.
 
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