From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Easy for Some Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:23:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <27011067.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262665070 21678 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 04:17:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 04:17:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 05:17:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from terminus-est.gnu.org ([66.92.78.210] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NS0rR-0001Rj-Bu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:17:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NS0nw-0006G8-Ep for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:14:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NS0jR-0004Ov-O0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NS0jL-0004Mv-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52779 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NS0Kg-0006yC-OY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:43:46 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46304) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRz5p-0003eP-Qe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NRz5h-0002ty-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:24:13 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:24:13 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:24:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71050 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 04.01.2010 um 11:25 schrieb marioepsley: > >> I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday, tried >> to use >> replace string as a guess > > > You could use awk to print only the second column, i.e., the second by > white space separated word of each line, when it exists in this record. > Then it would also output the second word of the header lines which > you'd need to filter: > > awk '{if (NF > 1) print $2}' | egrep -v '[^-0-9.]' You (almost) never need to pipe awk's output through (e)grep: awk 'NF == 2 && $2 ~ /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$/ {print $2}' FILE -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA