[SOLVED] find 2 identical words in one line and select only the number

Issue

I have an html file with numbers. I need to select only numbers. How to get only number 258108 and 263431?

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258108
263431

<p class="list-item">
    <span style="margin-left: 20px" class="padding"></span>
    <span class="icon left drop-down-icon" onclick="toggle(this, '15CF78F7-594A-4A8A-9DDC-E4896E9DB430')"></span>
    testIT: C258108, testIT: C263431 (1m19s)
    <span class="icon paperclip-icon" style="display: inline-block"></span>
  </p>

I did

sed -n -e 's/^.*testIT: C//p' | sed -r 's/ .+//'

but I only get the last one 263431

Solution

Since you are not substituting pattern occurrences, perhaps grep would be a better choice for you.

Assuming that you are looking to capture numbers following C before testIT: You could try this grep/cut combination:

cat input.txt | grep -o -E 'testIT: C[0-9]+'|cut -d " " -f2|cut -c 2-

grep arguments used:

• -o shows only the matching portions of the input
• -E enables extended regex use

The first cut command simply extracts the second value after testIT: and the second removes the prepended C character

Answered By - kiyell

Answer Checked By - David Goodson (WPSolving Volunteer)