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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed command in multicharacter Post 302905805 by awil on Saturday 14th of June 2014 04:26:26 AM
Old 06-14-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by clx
If the first field length is fixed (4 char long alphanumeric with uppercase), one way could be

Code:
sed 's/^\([A-Z0-9]\{4\}\).*  *\(.*\)/\1 \2/' file

If you are not sure about the length, the awk version might come handy

Code:
awk -F "[ |]" '{print $1,$NF}' file

Thank you very much. for your suggestion. The first field length is not fixed, they vary in other length. I tried to use this code, but it do not give me in expected output.

---------- Post updated at 03:26 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:24 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try using the inverse of the spacing characters:
Code:
sed 's/|[^[:blank:]]*//' file

Thank you very much for your suggestion. I tried to use this code, I can get the expected output.
 

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DESCRIPTION

       The  Windows  NT  postscript  driver has a tendency to make broken postscript files, that are incompatible with psutils.  fixnt is a filter
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