On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> Levi Bard wrote:
>
> >>I need to rid a numeric file of all lines that contain non-numeric
> >>characters ie [0-9]. In other words I only want numbers in that file.
> >>I think I recall seeing a sed statement that deleted anything except
> >>0-9. I just don't recall the systax.
> >>I have tried the ! thinking it would do the trick but it does not.
> >>Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> >grep -v '[0-9]' file
> >
> No, that will give all of the lines that do contain numbers (but the
> output will include the non-numeric characters. Try:
>
> sed "s/[^0-9]//g" filename
How about
grep '^[0-9]*$' infile > tempfile
mv tempfile infile
or
grep -v '[^0-9]' infile > tempfile
mv tempfile infile
?
You might have to throw " .-," into those regexes.
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