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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with SED Post 302195732 by mojoman on Thursday 15th of May 2008 08:19:14 PM
Old 05-15-2008
Problem with SED
Hi,

I have to use SED to remove the prefix "219-" from a text file containing phone numbers and I have to remove the ":" as well. I write the following code but it does not seem to work. Can someone help me please?

Code:
mohit@mohit-desktop:~$ sed  -n s/219-/" "/p corp_phones_bak > noprefix1
mohit@mohit-desktop:~$ sed  -n s/:/" "/p noprefix1> noprefix
mohit@mohit-desktop:~$ cat no prefix
cat: no: No such file or directory
cat: prefix: No such file or directory
mohit@mohit-desktop:~$ cat noprefix
 432-4567 Harrison:Joel:M:4540:Accountant:09-12-1985
 432-4587 Mitchell:Barbara:C:4541:Admin Asst:12-14-1995
 432-4589 Olson:Timothy:H:4544:Supervisor:06-30-1983
 432-4591 Moore:Sarah:H:4500 Dept Manager:08-01-1978
 432-4527 Polk:John:S:4520:Accountant:09-22-1998
mohit@mohit-desktop:~$

 

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