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# 1  
Old 08-06-2008
remove a colon and number and leaving the rest
just have a file

1:2333 2:-09393 [B]3:[/B]45453 4:-09999 5:-09933 6:93939

question is to get output by removing colons as well as number before each colon (in bold)

2333 -09393 45453 -09999 09933 93939
# 2  
Old 08-06-2008
Code:
echo "1:2333 2:-09393 3:45453 4:-09999 5:-09933 6:93939" | sed 's/[0-9]://g'
# in a file
sed 's/[0-9]://g' file > newfile

# 3  
Old 08-06-2008
one more question
Thanks tht command will help to remove when u have start from 0-9

what happen when u have after 10 uptp 50 and want to have to remove that part.

11:2222 12:3333 13 :-222 ...so on

when tried using the same sed[0-9]://g

then get output 12222 23333 3-222

so alternate option........
# 4  
Old 08-06-2008
Try using split on ":" and printing out part 2

split($0,a,":"); print a[2]
# 5  
Old 08-06-2008
echo "1:2333 2:-09393 3:45453 4:-09999 5:-09933 6:93939" | tr -d ":"

the above also will do..

-ilan
# 6  
Old 08-07-2008
Code:
cat filename | sed 's/[0-9]*://g'

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