Are you aware that these stipulations will exclude a "linux-something" at the lines end from being removed because there will be no space afterwards? Maybe this is not what you want. Also notice that your clause 2 means that the space immediately following the word "linux-*" will be removed too.
If your goal is indeed to remove the last match too i'd suggest:
If you want to retain the blank following the word but would not want to add a space at the end of the string then this:
I hope this helps.
bakunin
Any of the two work, because the apt command uses space as argument separator, when there are one or more spaces at the end they are ignored and two or more spaces in any place are condensed into one.
if I have "abxcdxefx" and want to remove the x's with sed, how can I do this?
Thanks.
WHOOPS:
Just remembered:
echo "abxcdxefx" | sed s/x//g
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