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SED - leaving last 3 characters

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I am using sed in a script, and want to leave the last 3 caracters each line. Lines may be like this: 45664551d67 r457 df rt1 and want to be like this: d67 457 rt1 Is this posible using sed? Thanks.

Name: David Perry
Date: March 31, 2005 at 05:31:56 Pacific

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It is likely possible. The answer would probably look something like this echo "I have a red pencil box" | sed -e "s/.*\([^ ]\{3\}\)$/\1/"

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