Bourne .sh ?

[John Levine]

In article <4C2D2839.3040909 at comclark.com> you write:
>I have a file containing this
>
>drwxrwxr-x  14 89987  546  512 Jun  6  2009 7.2-RELEASE
>drwxrwxr-x  14 89987  546  512 Mar 23 04:59 7.3-RELEASE
>drwxrwxr-x  13 89987  546  512 Nov 23  2009 8.0-RELEASE
>drwxrwxr-x  13 89987  546  512 Jul  1 04:56 8.1-RC2
>
>I want to strip off everything to the left of the release
>version so I end up with this.
>
>7.2-RELEASE
>7.3-RELEASE
>8.0-RELEASE
>8.1-RC2
>
>How would I code to do this?

sed -e 's/.* //' firstfile > secondfile

awk '{ print $9}' firstfile > secondfile


There are far more complicated methods, too.

R's,
John