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Old 08-09-2007
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Agreeing with your request, the {alphanumeric string with underscore} corresponds to "[0-9a-zA-Z_][0-9a-zA-Z_]*". So:


Code:
sed "s/ [0-9a-zA-Z_][0-9a-zA-Z_]*:/x/g" file1.txt

But I think this is better:


Code:
sed "s/ .*:/x/g" file1.txt

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