Awk: Remove comma at the end of the string

[Reddy482]

Thank you Johnson.
Your code worked like charm.

---------- Post updated 11-09-09 at 02:40 PM ---------- Previous update was 11-08-09 at 09:12 PM ----------

Originally Posted by danmero

We can change the expansion order:

ts="UID:               ABC345QWE678GFK345SA90, LENGTH 32"
ts="${ts%,*}"
echo ${ts#*:}

or using awk

echo "UID:  ABC345QWE678GFK345SA90, LENGTH 32"|awk '{sub(",","");print $2}'

or sed

echo "UID:  ABC345QWE678GFK345SA90, LENGTH 32" | sed 's/.* \(.*\),.*/\1/'

Hi Dan
Can you please explain me what is happenning in the sed command
sed 's/.* \(.*\),.*/\1/' temp.txt).It worked for me bit i didn't understand.