A very short perl script? You could have perl print the links to stdout
or have it call wget for you.
As a one liner...
perl -ne \
'm/^ ab (1) cfd (2) egb (3) chd (4) eib (5) cjd (6) ek $/x \
and print "$1\n$2\n$3\n$4\n$5\n$6\n"' \
< data
Scott Raun wrote:
> I've got a file. The file has one line of interest. Alpha characters
> represent fixed strings, numbers represent variable strings.
>
> ab1cfd2egb3chd4eib5cjd6ek
>
> I'm pretty sure I can write myself a regular expression that will
> correspond to the numbered strings. What I need is a tool that will
> pass the matched string along to standard out.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> To put it in slightly less obscure terms - the line represents a
> string of html code. The numbers represent hypertext links and their
> matching text. I want to watch for a specific text string, and pass
> the corresponding link to wget. I think I've got all the pieces
> figured out _except_ passing the link to wget.
>