Match the whole line, so add a .* at the beginning of your regex. This causes the entire line to be replaced with the contents of the group
echo "foo bar <foo> bla 1 2 3.4" |
sed -n 's/.*\([0-9][0-9]*[\ \t][0-9.]*[ \t]*$\)/\1/p'
2 3.4
Match the whole line, so add a .* at the beginning of your regex. This causes the entire line to be replaced with the contents of the group
echo "foo bar <foo> bla 1 2 3.4" |
sed -n 's/.*\([0-9][0-9]*[\ \t][0-9.]*[ \t]*$\)/\1/p'
2 3.4