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Old 05-29-2007
lorcan lorcan is offline
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Originally Posted by praveenkumar_l
Try this too

sed '/[+-]/,/[1-9]/ s/[+-]00*//g' file
This sed statement would modify the date too since the '-' symbol is present in the date representation