Scripting / one liner help

[Hal Burgiss]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 08/10/2011 02:52 PM, Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com<mailto:
>> gurus.knugum at gmail.com**>> wrote:
>>
>>    2011/8/10 Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net <mailto:hal at burgiss.net>>:
>>
>>    >
>>    > See if this gets close to extracting the image names ...
>>    > grep SRC *html | sed -r 's/SRC="([^"]+)"/\1/ig' | whatever_script.sh
>>
>>    I didn't create this thread, but can you please explain that sed
>>    statement? I don't get it… (I'm not a beginner with regular
>>    expressions but I'm definitely not an expert either…)
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation Hal, unfortunately it is not doing the "ignores
> the rest" part It appears that it finds each occurrance of a file name, then
> replaces it with the same occurrance, without the " marks.
>
>
Sorry something got left out, try ...

  grep  SRC *html | sed -r 's/.*SRC="([^"]+)".*/\1/ig'


-- 
Hal
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