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If your file is tab-delimited: Code:
sed 's/\(.*\)-[^\t]*\(.*\)/\1\2/' file If your sed version doesn't support the "\t" as a tab character type <Ctrl-v><TAB> instead of \t. Regards |
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awk - Code:
awk '{print substr($1,1, length($1)-8), $2, $3}' filename > newfilename
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Getting closer. Thank you.
The output file is now two lines long though, reading: Quote:
(I'm working with biological data, I'm a reasonably intelligent person trying to work with large datasets but I am not a programmer. Solving these issues with programming instead of manually saves many, many, many hours for myself and coworkers so I appreciate the assistance). |
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