From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: string manipulating? Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 11:46:12 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E186154.D32669EB@gelm.net> References: <200212081837.LAA15273@cu.imt.net> <3DF44FE9.69FB5E4D@ihug.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Howdy, Y'all: Using 'grep' I've parsed some stdout to lines ending in ...(123.45.67.89): How can I either: extract the last 17 characters all characters after the first "(" all characters from "(" to ")" ? I tried cut -c ".0123456789" filename.txt but it returns cut: invalid byte or field list. :-| Regards, Chuck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs