Re: Problem with positional output

Grmpf!


Now I have to reply to myself!


On 2016-11-14 14:03:50 Michelle Konzack hacked into the keyboard:
> Hello *,
> 
> after 4 years of Linux/OSS abstinence I am back and I run into troubles,
> because I have forgotten ho to get values from a string...
> 
> 
> The string has 4 parameters, deperated by the | sign and I like  to  get
> it with something like
> 
>      echo "${RETVAL}" |sed 's!(.*)|(.*)|(.*)!$1!'


This is now working with:


   echo "${RETVAL}" |sed 's!\(.*\)|\(.*\)|\(.*\)!\1!'


Greetings


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