Re: Best sed syntax to extract numbers?

On 2008-12-01, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If it's the last field you want to extract I'd prefer awk for its
simplicity...

$ echo 'Volume adjustment: 4.608' | awk '{print $NF}'
4.608

Thanks for that Janis, not only economical but simple enough for an awk
n00b to understand :-).

Andrew


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echo 'hfrarg.naqerj@xxxxxxxxx' | \
tr 'A-M N-Z a-m n-z' 'N-Z A-M n-z a-m'
.

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