string filteration with sed.

[ranjank]

Hi All,

I want to filter a particular version number which is assigned to a variable in particular file.For E.g

$ABC=/usr/local/misc/1.12
This is in xyz file.There are many such variables defined in xyz file.I want to filter version 1.12 from $ABC variable.How can i go about it.Any help will be highly appereciated.

Regards,
RK.

 

[PHV]

You may try this:
sed -n 's!.*/\([0-9][.0-9]*\)$!\1!p' xyz

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[ranjank]

Thanks for the reply.Can you please explain me the same as i'm newbie to this.

Rgds,
RK.

 

[PHV]

man sed

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