Date: 2 Jul 2010 00:19:43 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: aiza21@comclark.com Subject: Re: Bourne .sh ? Message-ID: <20100702001943.37629.qmail@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <4C2D2839.3040909@comclark.com>
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In article <4C2D2839.3040909@comclark.com> you write:
>I have a file containing this
>
>drwxrwxr-x 14 89987 546 512 Jun 6 2009 7.2-RELEASE
>drwxrwxr-x 14 89987 546 512 Mar 23 04:59 7.3-RELEASE
>drwxrwxr-x 13 89987 546 512 Nov 23 2009 8.0-RELEASE
>drwxrwxr-x 13 89987 546 512 Jul 1 04:56 8.1-RC2
>
>I want to strip off everything to the left of the release
>version so I end up with this.
>
>7.2-RELEASE
>7.3-RELEASE
>8.0-RELEASE
>8.1-RC2
>
>How would I code to do this?
sed -e 's/.* //' firstfile > secondfile
awk '{ print $9}' firstfile > secondfile
There are far more complicated methods, too.
R's,
John
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