a lot of these old unix utilities like sed and awk are becoming
deprecated by the community of linux people.  If youre thinking about
learning sed or awk, I would suggest just using command line perl, a
skill that you can leverage in many other places.  You can do anything
with perl that you can sed or awk, in a similar format.

  -jmz


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Kevin Faulkner <kondor6c@cox.net> 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.
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