want to return the corresponding time

[mannezaber]

hey, well that helped me a lot as well, I have another question.. let's say I have the following:

24 Jun 2010 02:14:38,686 - INFO - Sending to SMPP ENGINE..................................(TID=20134 22, Mobile No.=96171543122,


If I put 961........ it will return all the numbers, which is perfect, but if i want to return the corresponding time, how should I put it?

I tried the following:

sed -n 's/^\(.*\)\(961........\)\(..:..:..\)\(.*\)$/\2/p' THETESTER

but it's not returning anything. I feel the solution is rather silly but I cannot see it, any help? excuse my ignorance, im still a noob

[Kloschüssel]

The match just does not match. :P

Split it up: ^\(.*\)\(961........\)\(..:..:..\)\(.*\)$

1] ^ start of line
2] (.*) every character
3] (961........) characters with leading 961 and a fixed number of other characters behind (the dots)
4] (..:..:..) would then match a time
5] (.*) and yet all the rest of the line
6] $ until reached the end of line

Now look at your example and I'm sure you can figure it out on your own.

[mannezaber]

What I want as output is the following:

02:14:38 96171543122

I dont know why it's giving me headaches, I tried to split them but no success whatsovever grrrrr

[Kloschüssel]

I suppose you thought about it for more than just 5 seconds, so this clue may help you on:

The line should be matched like this:

1] ^ start of line
2] (.. ... .... ..:..:..,...) group that matches the date
3] .* skip the next few characters
4] [Mobile\ No\.\=([0-9]*)] matches the part you want (the mobile number)

Finally you reference the groups you have in there (if you assemblied all parts group 1 is the date, group 2 is the mobile number. So what is the sed command it should look alike in the end?

's/^(.. ... .... ..:..:..,...).*[Mobile\ No\.\=([0-9]*)]\/\1 \2/p'

Did you understand what you did wrong?

PS: this is untested, so generally said it will not work by copy&paste. Some things can be teached and some things you have to figure out on yourself.