sed inclusion/exclusion

jinksys · 05-01-2007, 08:39 PM

If I have the following data:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<events timestamp="1178056694" min_date="1178053090" total="3218" offset="0" count="10">
 <digg date="1178056693" story="1896806" id="67943582" user="Sherwood411" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056692" story="1896170" id="67943580" user="OneHine" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056690" story="1896889" id="67943571" user="KingOfTheKings" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056689" story="1889485" id="67943567" user="allthebest" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056687" story="1894012" id="67943561" user="sepultura" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056686" story="1896706" id="67943555" user="positiveions" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056686" story="1896874" id="67943553" user="jschliesman" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056684" story="1896888" id="67943551" user="diggerdubai" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056682" story="1892396" id="67943545" user="tshlock" status="upcoming" />
 <digg date="1178056682" story="1892398" id="67943544" user="boivie" status="upcoming" />
</events>

using sed how do I strip away everything but the story number? I looked through tutorials and got this... sed -n '/story=\"/,/\"/p' but it doesn't work. SED NOOBIE

osor · 05-01-2007, 09:38 PM

Have you tried something along the lines of the following:

Code:

sed -ne 's/^.*story=\"\([0-9]*\)\".*$/\1/p'

jinksys · 05-01-2007, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by osor

Have you tried something along the lines of the following:

Code:

sed -ne 's/^.*story=\"\([0-9]*\)\".*$/\1/p'

Perfect!
Thanks a million!