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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed command to remove the first field from a '|' delimited file Post 302541194 by var285 on Friday 22nd of July 2011 05:30:49 PM
Old 07-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
ed can save the day! Smilie

Code:
printf %s\\n '1,$s/^[^|]*|//' w q | ed -s file

or using a heredoc
Code:
ed -s file <<'EOED'
1,$s/^[^|]*|//
w
q
EOED

---------- Post updated at 05:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:21 PM ----------



I'm curious. Why not?
I am going to use this in the C code and in this case i have to use multiple execl commands to remove the temp file etc..

Regards,
Alister
 

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