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Old 06-28-2011
Help with deleting characters from text file
I have a text file that looks like this:
Quote:
13412 NA06985 0 0 2 46.6432798439 2 2
13412 NA06991 NA06993 NA06985 2 48.8478948517 2 2
13412 NA06993 0 0 1 45.8022601455 2 2
13401 NA06994 0 0 1 48.780669145 4 4
13401 NA07000 0 0 2 47.7312017846 2 2
13402 NA07019 NA07022 NA07056 2 41.7389244255 2 4
13402 NA07022 0 0 1 54.1498530714 2 4
13401 NA07029 NA06994 NA07000 1 X 2 4
13411 NA07034 0 0 1 41.709838673
I want to delete the last character of first column in all rows so that my output looks like this:
Quote:
1341 NA06985 0 0 2 46.6432798439 2 2
1341 NA06991 NA06993 NA06985 2 48.8478948517 2 2
1341 NA06993 0 0 1 45.8022601455 2 2
1340 NA06994 0 0 1 48.780669145 4 4
1340 NA07000 0 0 2 47.7312017846 2 2
1340 NA07019 NA07022 NA07056 2 41.7389244255 2 4
1340 NA07022 0 0 1 54.1498530714 2 4
1340 NA07029 NA06994 NA07000 1 X 2 4
1341 NA07034 0 0 1 41.709838673
Thanks a lot!
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Old 06-28-2011
Code:
sed 's/. / /' file

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