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#3 Re: Sed advice Posted by busfault (69.205.xx.xx) on Thu 15 Feb 2007 at 15:05 I know you are using sed but this could be also easily done using grep grep -o "[0-9]\{7\}" pyrrhic@Valhalla:~$ cat sedtest asdasdfasdfasdf1234567dsdgfdsgf2345671dsfgsdfgsdfg3456712sdfgsdfgdsfg pyrrhic@Valhalla:~$ cat sedtest |grep -o "[0-9]\{7\}" 1234567 2345671 3456712 adding a |head -1 would give you the first result.

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