-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2016/5/4 15:50, dwoody5654 wrote: > On 05/04/2016 12:44 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> People, >> >> This behaves as expected: >> >> echo 'This is a test 12335 and 669384 535xy4' | sed >> 's/[0-9]*//g' >> >> but I would expect this: >> >> echo 'This is a test 12335 and 669384 535xy4' | sed 's/[0-9]*//' >> >> to delete the first string of digits but it doesn't do anything . >> . clarification from a sed guru? > [0-9]* means zero or more digits. [0-9][0-9]* would be one or more > digits > > David Then the command line would be echo 'This is a test 12335 and 669384 535xy4' | sed 's/[0-9]\+//' to remove the first string of digits. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Phil. > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe > or change subscription options: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.o rg > > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXKbkNAAoJEC8FnrP95NDKT08QAIPwz1Mc8HeWGpKRoIEzI6Nz BcOQ5PRmT+4cH7H2isIhUxbfIOqLCrY5sGtb3LHhWmFeLpNVpk1Hpi9kxN3DwAdX vZ8WKbsbgRHCz0155Yu+YfgR2X+vJOTZ1JfAGHmAFupXrlOH5/AKwJKjIV/RFJ6t S70zq8YO4+ccdM+iK9d36N4b1fZ/FujldoYoXBHKVHyuoLZPOv7o2daOOtJiMLGI qURVqe/PCZVf75LUs9jsG5DAL0JfFvEXgXb0GKgenypZxQq2p3u33FxbZZhX0HBR J0Rs0Pu28WxhWK9Am/vJgKQ+O9/TtLFqtqOW7m9eYne1CSw6itScViNPIBxLzkO9 NQ8pkusEp1/A8P87oSsr22AJEIuvX5tqfCWMJ5h5+hgM20XZt4zxrG9Kd99MVyWc otbSPze+FydA+wLrX1bYOeo97ZmmKe3r6Gc67RY0LkmXLnuBQqtAYxeIRIFfGRwV ISlwEA4PcuDrO4Re6GsJ699nMNj9GzbEPi2PvkG1q6mZPd8cDGgf27uEHZ4CcjPc iPtCZ4TL3prW59cxcM647hnTUHWs1Ugypd2Ma4U+o0yMJRBXCBtoWW/w7srDeeQp n/ZEv7pKDUJihhJZxSnCbPonFJBd+txXMcql8wj1n47KdlUjXXwpIlFQD8REfXEx CzelHmD7ihAUC81RScZs =zYk6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org