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Old 05-08-2009
Thanks a lot to all for your valuable replies.
Hi Ghostdog74,
I dont have python installed in my system so couldnt get this option worked.Anyways thanks a lot for your suggestion and i would keep it so that i will be useful in future if i have python installed.

Hi devtakh,
your code works but only for first option i.e the fields with APPLICATION are getting deleted but SOURCE_METHOD are still remaining.
Is it like that we can remove only one field at a time using sed??



Hi joeyg,
Thanks for showing another approach but it is not working in my system
It is showing like this.
$ > tr "," "\n" <file19 | grep -v "APPLICATION" | tr "\n" ","
ksh: ,: not found

Could you please help me find out why is it so?

Thanks in advance.
Usha
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Old 05-08-2009
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Originally Posted by usha rao
Thanks a lot to all for your valuable replies.
Hi Ghostdog74,
I dont have python installed in my system so couldnt get this option worked.Anyways thanks a lot for your suggestion and i would keep it so that i will be useful in future if i have python installed.

Hi devtakh,
your code works but only for first option i.e the fields with APPLICATION are getting deleted but SOURCE_METHOD are still remaining.
Is it like that we can remove only one field at a time using sed??




Hi joeyg,
Thanks for showing another approach but it is not working in my system
It is showing like this.
$ > tr "," "\n" <file19 | grep -v "APPLICATION" | tr "\n" ","
ksh: ,: not found

Could you please help me find out why is it so?

Thanks in advance.
Usha
That is because METHOD was incorrectly spelt as MEATHOD Smilie

Code:
sed -e 's/APPLICATION[^,]*,//g' -e 's/SOURCE_METHOD[^,]*,//g' filename


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam
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