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LULUSNATCH

12-21-2005 09:06 AM

Getting last characters of a line with sed command

Hello,i'm a big newbie with Linux script

i want to grab last 8 characters of a line with the seb command?

Thanks for your help

lulu

nx5000

12-21-2005 09:20 AM

What about this:

echo "987654321" | sed -e 's/^.*$........$$/\1/'

Will print
87654321

LULUSNATCH

12-21-2005 09:29 AM

Thanks

and for the line:

Disk Identifier : disk0s10

I want to grab the last word 'disk0s10'

thanks

lulu

kshkid

12-21-2005 09:31 AM

Code:

echo "Disk Identifier : disk0s10" | sed -e 's/^.*://'

LULUSNATCH

12-21-2005 09:33 AM

Thanks

have a nice day

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