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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How delete characters of specific line with sed? Post 302713349 by inaki on Wednesday 10th of October 2012 02:14:23 PM
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How delete characters of specific line with sed?

Hi,

I have a text file with some lines like this:

Code:
/MEDIA/DISK1/23568742.MOV
/MEDIA/DISK1/87456321.AVI
/MEDIA/DISK2/PART1/45753131.AVI
/IMPORT/44452.WAV
...

I want to remove the last 12 characters in each line that it ends "AVI". Should look like this:


Code:
/MEDIA/DISK1/23568742.MOV
/MEDIA/DISK1/
/MEDIA/DISK2/PART1/
/IMPORT/44452.WAV
...

Does anyone know how to do it with sed?

Thank you,

Iņaki


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SG_RMSN(8)							     SG3_UTILS								SG_RMSN(8)

NAME
sg_rmsn - sends a SCSI READ MEDIA SERIAL NUMBER command SYNOPSIS
sg_rmsn [--help] [--raw] [--readonly] [--verbose] [--version] DEVICE DESCRIPTION
Send a SCSI READ MEDIA SERIAL NUMBER command to DEVICE and outputs the response. This command is described in SPC-3 found at www.t10.org . It was originally added to SPC-3 in revision 11 (2003/2/12). It is not an manda- tory command and the author has not seen any SCSI devices that support it. OPTIONS
Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well. -h, --help output the usage message then exit. -r, --raw sends the serial number (if found) to stdout. This output may contain non-printable characters (e.g. the serial number is padded with NULLs at the end so its length is a multiple of 4). The default action is to print the serial number out in ASCII-HEX with ASCII characters to the right. All error messages are sent to stderr. -R, --readonly opens the DEVICE read-only rather than read-write which is the default. The Linux sg driver needs read-write access for the SCSI READ MEDIA SERIAL NUMBER command but other access methods may require read-only access. -v, --verbose increase the level of verbosity, (i.e. debug output). -V, --version print the version string and then exit. NOTES
Device identification information is also found in a standard INQUIRY response and its VPD pages (see sg_vpd). The relevant VPD pages are the "device identification page" (VPD page 0x83) and the "unit serial number" page (VPD page 0x80). The MMC-4 command set for CD/DVD/HD-DVD/BD drives has a "media serial number" feature (0x109) [and a "logical unit serial number" feature]. These can be viewed with sg_get_config. EXIT STATUS
The exit status of sg_rmsn is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise see the sg3_utils(8) man page. AUTHORS
Written by Douglas Gilbert. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Douglas Gilbert This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR- POSE. SEE ALSO
sg_vpd(sg3_utils), sg_get_config(sg3_utils) sg3_utils-1.31 February 2011 SG_RMSN(8)
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