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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Trying to remove single character from a line Post 302125790 by Iz3k34l on Saturday 7th of July 2007 01:29:21 PM
Old 07-07-2007
update on Ghostdog usage

thanks for your help.

some of the problems i was having was removing the B from the DOB line. along with the B from the Phone nums.

HOME# cat user2.txt
PT: DARRELL SMITH
PTDOB: 12/15/98
RP: DARRELL SMITH SR
PTSSN: 558-55-1234
RPSSN: 554-55-1234
HMNUM: 213-555-1234B
RPNUM: 213-555-1234
POENUM: 213-555-1234B
HMADDY: 123 A yourstreet Los Angeles CA 90504
POENAME:
POEADDY:
CLIENT: TMC
DOS: 05/07/05

After trying many diff things i changed ghostdog's example and viola

awk '//{gsub(/B$/,"")}{print}' user2.txt


and now th results are in

HOME# awk '//{gsub(/B$/,"")}{print}' user2.txt
PT: DARRELL SMITH
PTDOB: 12/15/98
RP: DARRELL SMITH SR
PTSSN: 558-55-1234
RPSSN: 554-55-1234
HMNUM: 213-555-1234
RPNUM: 213-555-1234
POENUM: 213-555-1234
HMADDY: 123 A yourstreet Los Angeles CA 90504
POENAME:
POEADDY:
CLIENT: TMC
DOS: 05/07/05
HOME#

Thanks GDog
 

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rarp(7P)							     Protocols								  rarp(7P)

NAME
rarp, RARP - Reverse address resolution protocol DESCRIPTION
You use the RARP protocol to map dynamically between the Internet Protocol (IP) and network interface MAC addresses. RARP is often used to boot a Solaris client. RARP clients include the SPARC boot PROM, x86 boot floppy, SunOS kernel, and ifconfig(1M). in.rarpd(1M) provides the server-side implementation. RARP request timeout behavior in application-layer clients is governed by the /etc/inet/rarp default file. To tune the number of retries an application attempts before giving up, set the RARP_RETRIES variable in /etc/inet/rarp. If the file is not present or RARP_RETRIES is not initialized within it, applications retry a maximum of five times with a eight second wait between retries. FILES
/etc/inet/rarp ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (protocol) | Standard | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (defaults file) | Unstable | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (RARP_RETRIES) | Unstable | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ifconfig(1M), in.rarpd(1M), arp(7P) Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RFC 903. June, 1994 R. Finlayson, T. Mann, J.C. Mogul, M. Theimer SunOS 5.10 8 Nov 2001 rarp(7P)
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