How to extract text from a string using sed?

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The pattern \d might not be supported by your sed. Try [0-9] or [[:digit:]] instead.

To only print the actual match (not the entire matching line), use a substitution.

sed -n 's/.*\([0-9][0-9]*G[0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/p'

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