Re: sed problem

From: Fabrice Guerini (fabrice@BLUEMARTINI.COM)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 16:45:20 EDT


Lose the "*". Just use

         sed -n -e '/[09]*/p' sample.txt

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F.
At 01:16 PM 7/19/2002, Y.SINGH@PONL.COM wrote:
>Friends , a stupid question.
>Following is the file of 9 lines (sample.txt) :
>900
>12356
>2.1
>3.14159265
>87878787
>0.25
>
>
>a
>
>if i give command ,
>sed -n -e '/900*/p' sample.txt
>I get output of just one line ,
>900
>
>Now if I give command ,
>sed -n -e '/[09]*/p' sample.txt
>I get all the lines in output ,
>900
>12356
>2.1
>3.14159265
>87878787
>0.25
>
>
>a
>
>Why is that ?? I am expecting combination of only 0 & 9 in output .
>Please advice.
>
>
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