I need to delete all text between "|" delimiters. The line in text file typically looks like this:
Code:
1014182| 13728 -rw-r--r-- 1 imac1 staff 7026127 2 okt 2010 |/Users/imac1/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Various Artists/We Are the World_ U.S.A. for Africa/01 We Are the World.mp3
I'd like to keep just:
Code:
1014182|/Users/imac1/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Various Artists/We Are the World_ U.S.A. for Africa/01 We Are the World.mp3
I tried with the command that doesn't work:
Code:
sed 's/\([^|]*\),\([^|]*\),\([^|]*\).*/\1,\3/g/' infile
Thank you.
Andrej
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width] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
The command is a simple text formatter that fills and joins lines to produce output lines of (up to) the number of characters specified in
the width option. The default width is 72. concatenates the arguments. If none are given, formats text from the standard input.
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with Nor does it fill lines starting with
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Delete string between delimiters with sed
