[aklug] Re: sed regex help needed

Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
> Lee wrote:
>> heya folks,
>>
>> Been working on this for a while now, and decided it's time to call for assistance.
>>
>> I'm trying to use sed to extract an arbitrary length substring that begins with KB and
>> ends with - . That's a space-dash.
>
> Does it have to be sed?
>
> echo "[44]: KB951072-v2 - Update"|cut -d' ' -f2
>
> works as well and is less complicated.

Cool. I'm not the OP, but will tuck that pearl away for future
reference. Been many a time I could have used it!

FWIW, with a quick look at the cut man page and a bit of playing I was
able to see that if one wants the ' -' tacked on the end of the
extracted string, just change the -f2 to -f3

...Kevin

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