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Old 09-30-2011
Remove apostrophe and a letter(s) followed by it
Hi All,

For example, I have some words like these:

Code:
cabinet's
school's
field's
you'll

I know how to remove apostrophe from these words using this command:

Code:
cat filename | tr -s "\'" ' '

But I am not sure how I can remove the letter followed by the apostrophe, so that my output becomes:


Code:
cabinet
school
field
you

I am doing this in Linux with BASH.
Last edited by shoaibjameel123; 09-30-2011 at 01:31 AM.. Reason: Added more information
# 2  
Old 09-30-2011
Code:
$ sed "s/'[A-Za-z]//g" inputfile
cabinet
school
field

---------- Post updated at 10:03 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:02 AM ----------

Code:
 
$ sed "s/'[A-Za-z].*//g" test
cabinet
school
field
you

$ cat test 
cabinet's
school's
field's
you'll

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# 3  
Old 09-30-2011
using awk ..
Code:
$ awk -F\' '{print $1}' infile

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# 4  
Old 09-30-2011
you can try this :
Code:
cat t1.txt | tr "\'" " " | cut -d " " -f 1

---------- Post updated at 01:47 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:46 AM ----------

t1.txt - will be your input file


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