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how to delete away text in a file?
Post 95062 by forevercalz on Friday 6th of January 2006 05:36:54 AM
01-06-2006
thanks 
however i need to put this in a script so i try to write this down:
`sed -e 's_^.\{,2\}:.\{,2\}:.\{,2\} .*<pregate_<pregate_g' p.txt > sample.modified`
however i get this msg :
sed: command garbled: s_^.\{,2\}:.\{,2\}:.\{,2\} .*<pregate_<pregate_g
sorry as im still new to scripting....
however i need to put this in a script so i try to write this down:`sed -e 's_^.\{,2\}:.\{,2\}:.\{,2\} .*<pregate_<pregate_g' p.txt > sample.modified`
however i get this msg :
sed: command garbled: s_^.\{,2\}:.\{,2\}:.\{,2\} .*<pregate_<pregate_g
sorry as im still new to scripting....
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dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter SYNOPSYS
dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...] Options: [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format. OPTIONS
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Tested environment: Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3 MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02 Suggestions and bug reports are welcome. SEE ALSO
unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1) 1995.03.31 dos2unix v3.0 dos2unix(1)