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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to remove first and last character using sed Post 303037572 by drysdalk on Tuesday 6th of August 2019 10:35:46 AM
Old 08-06-2019
Hi,

The sed command can take care of this for you:

Code:
$ cat test.txt
,001E:001F,,,02EE,0FED:0FEF,
$ sed -i 's/^,//g;s/,$//g' test.txt
$ cat test.txt
001E:001F,,,02EE,0FED:0FEF

The effect of this command is to substitute commas at the start of a line (represented by ^,) with nothing, and to also substitute commas at the end of a line (represented by ,$) with nothing. So any commas at the start and end will be removed, with everything else being left untouched.

Note that it will only remove exactly what it matches - i.e. one single comma, so if there are multiple commas at the start or end of some lines in your file you'd need to tweak this. But if every line is of the exact same format, then this would do the job.

Hope this helps !
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BBE(1)																	    BBE(1)

NAME
bbe - binary block editor SYNOPSIS
bbe [options]... DESCRIPTION
bbe is a sed-like editor for binary files. It performs binary transformations on the blocks of input stream. OPTIONS
bbe accepts the following options: -b, --block=BLOCK Block definition. -e, --expression=COMMAND Add the COMMAND to the commands to be executed. -f, --file=script-file Add the contest of script-file to commands. -o, --output=name Write output to name instead of standard output. -s, --suppress Suppress normal output, print only block contents. -?, --help List all available options and their meanings. -V, --version Show version of program. BLOCK can be defined as: N:M Where N'th byte starts a M bytes long block (first byte is 0). :M Block length in input stream is M. /start/:M String start starts M bytes long block. /start/:/stop/ String start starts the block and block ends to string stop. /start/: String start starts the block and block will end at next occurence of start. Only the first start is included to the block. :/stop/ Block starts at the beginning of input stream (or at the end of previous block) and ends at the next occurrence of stop. String stop will be included to the block. Special value '$' of M means the end of stream. Default value for block is 0:$, meaning the whole input stream. Both start and stop strings are included to block. Nonprintable characters can be escaped as nn decimal xnn hexadecimal nnn octal Character '' can be escaped as '\'. Escape codes 'a','',' ',' ','v','f',' ' and ';' can also be used. Length (N and M) can be defined as decimal (n), hexadecimal (xn) or octal (0n) value. COMMAND SYNOPSIS
bbe has two type of commands: block and byte commands, both are allways related to current block. That means that the input stream outside of block remains untouched. Block commands D [n] Delete the n'th block. Without n, all found blocks are deleted from the output stream. I string Insert the string string before the block. A string Append the string string at the end of block. J n Skip n blocks before executing commands after this command. L n Leave all blocks unmodified starting from block number n. Affects only commands after this command. N Before printing a block, the file name in which the block starts is printed. F f Before printing a block, the input stream offset at the begining of the block is printed. f can be H, D or O for Hexadecimal, Deci- mal or Octal format of offset. B f Before printing a block, the block number is printed (first block == 1) f can be H, D or O for Hexadecimal, Decimal or Octal format of block number. > file Before printing a block, the contents of file file is printed. < file After printing a block, the contents of file file is printed. Byte commands n in byte commands is offset from the beginning of current block (starts from zero). r n string Replace bytes starting at position n with string string. i n string Insert string starting at position n. p format The contents of block is printed in format defined by format. format can have any of the formats H, D, O, A and B for Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal, Asciii and Binary. s/search/replace/ Replace all occurrences of search with replace. y/source/dest/ Translate bytes in source to the corresponding bytes in dest. Source and dest must have equal length. d n m|* Delete m bytes starting from the offset n. If * is defined instead of m, then all bytes starting from n are deleted. c from to Convert bytes from format from to to. Currently supported formats are: BCD Binary coded decimal ASC Ascii j n Commands after the j-command are ignored for first n bytes of the block. l n Commands after the l-command are ignored from n'th byte of the block. w file Write bytes from the current block to file file. Commands before w-command have effect to what will be written. %B or %nB in file will be replaced by current block number. n in %nB is field length, leading zero in n causes the block number to be left padded with zeroes. & c Performs binary and with c. | c Performs binary or with c. ^ c Performs binary xor with c. ~ Performs binary negation. u n c All bytes from start of the block to offset n are replaced by c. f n c All bytes starting from offset n to end of the block are replaced by c. x Exchange the contents of nibbles (half an octet) of bytes. Nonvisible characters in strings can be escaped same way as in block definition strings. Character '/' in s and y commands can be any visi- ble character. Note that the D, A, I, F, B, c, s, i, y, p, <, > and d commands cause the length of input and output streams to be different. EXAMPLES
bbe -e "s/c:\temp\data1.txt/c:\temp\data2.txt/" file1 all occurences of "c: empdata1.txt" in file file1 are changed to "c: empdata2.txt" bbe -b 0420:16 -e "r 4 x12x4a" file1 Two bytes starting at fifth byte of a 16 byte long block starting at offset 0420 (octal) in file1 are changed to hexadecimal values 12 and 4a. bbe -b :16 -e "A x0a" file1 Newline is added after every block, block length is 16. SEE ALSO
sed(1). AUTHOR
Timo Savinen <tjsa@iki.fi> 2006-11-02 BBE(1)
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