Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:40:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher J. Umina" <uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com> To: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> Cc: FreeBSD Question Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: matching a string Message-ID: <20020729174022.S34156-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <20020729142956.L989-100000@njam.myip.org>
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Perfect! Thank you all, Christopher J. Umina On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Viktor Lazlo wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Christopher J. Umina wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing some code to pull screen names out of a log, but I > > can't seem to figure out the regular expressions to get it done. If you > > want to see the log file it's at: > > http://216.164.225.145:81/~uminac/mp3/logs/master > > What I've been looking to make the script do is just list the > > screen names without the brackets, that's all. For instance: > > kelzy16 > > cc skillet > > ccgirl436 > > ccgirl436 > > meikman99 > > bctictac8 > > Exactly which combination of metacharacters, regular expressions and > commands depends on what you are attempting to accomplish in your script > apart from isolating the usernames and by what means, but as a general > example: > > cat master | sed -n 's/.*\[\(.*\)\].*/\1/p' > > should get you near or in the ballpark. > > Cheers, > > Viktor > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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