Kevin Faulkner wrote: > First off, I've been trying to do this for a little while, but keep on getting > dragged off to other things. My goal is to get sed to pull off the .xxx of the > file. So lets say you have documentation.odt timesheet.ods archive.zip and > readme.txt I would like sed to pull off these: ods zip odt txt. I figured I > would do it like this > ls -l |awk '{print $8}'|sed -e '/$\.+++/p > ls -l |awk '{print $8}'|sed -e '/^\.+++/p > (I also used ? in place of the +) > I have also tried this. > ls -l |awk '{print $8}'|grep -e "*\.[a-z] > > I'm not sure if I just don't understand sed, or if its a problem with regular > expressions, but either way, I can't get it work. Even * should work as it is any character. A little guidance would be nice. Thanks folks. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > Does the .+++ appear anywhere else? If not you could do this: ls -l |awk '{print $8}'|sed -e 's/.+++//g --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss