quick question

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am using sed to find a pattern in a line and then I want to retain the pattern + the rest of the line. How is this possible? ie:

line is:  14158  05-15-08  20:00   123-1234-A21/deliverable/dhm.a
 
search for 123-1234-A21 ie:
echo $line | sed 's/.*\([0-9]\{3\}-[0-9]\{4\}-[0-9A-Z]\{3\}[A-Z]\{5\}\).*/\1/'

want to retain 123-1234-A21/deliverable/dam.a

Is using sed the best option for this? currently it only retains the 123-1234-A21

Thanks!

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ah just got it, nevermind then something like

sed 's/.*\([0-9]\{3\}-[0-9]\{4\}-.*\).*/\1/'

works great.