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Author: Nathan
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: sed help
On Wednesday 02 April 2008 09:32:11 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.
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how about

ls -l | rev | cut -b5- | rev

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