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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash, remove numbers after colon Post 302806109 by bakunin on Sunday 12th of May 2013 01:53:34 PM
Old 05-12-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by 3therk1ll
Yeah I just meant a text file
In this case you should read the file line by line and then do what i showed you in a loop, like this:

Code:
while read var ; do
     echo ${var%%:*}
done < /path/to/text.file

Instead of the "echo" insert whatever you want to do with the value. Using "awk" or "sed" (or "perl" or whatever) for the same purpose will be slower because these programs have to be invoked while parameter expansion is done within the shell itself.

If your goal is not solely to produce a modified file (in this case "sed" is the best solution) but to do something inside the shell with the values thus generated you should do it like i told you.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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