sed - Removing all characters from token to end of line
Hello.
The token is any printable characters between 2 " .
The token is unknown, but we know that it is between 2 " Tok 1 : "1234x567" Tok 2 : "A3b6+None" Tok 3 : "A3b6!1234=@"
The ligne is : Line 1 : Line 2 :
But it is possible that there is a whitespace at the beginning of the ligne Line 3 :
Each line is in a file.
And I would like the command like : sed parameter file1 > file2
should give
in file2
with parameter something like :
with file1 containing something like :
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Any help is welcome
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