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# 1  
Old 03-08-2010
Removing special char's with sed

Hi,
I've a txt file which contains the following kind of listed data

18971 ./aosrp18.r
15340 ./aosrp12.r
22996 ./aosrp08.r
17125 ./aosrp06.r

I'm trying to get rid of the ./ in the file and have tried the following with sed but I'm not getting the correct result... I'm not sure what way it's supposed to be written


Code:
cat rcode_list_2010_B.txt | sed s'/[./]//' > rcode_list_2010_C.txt

Code:
cat q1_rcode_list_c.txt | sed s'/[./]//g' > q1_rcode_list_d.txt

Code:
cat rcode_list_2010_B.txt | sed s'/\./\' > rcode_list_2010_C.txt

Can someone point me in the right direction?
# 2  
Old 03-08-2010
try this

Code:
cat rcode_list_2010_B.txt |sed 's+[./]++g' > rcode_list_2010_C.txt

# 3  
Old 03-08-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by jville
try this

Code:
cat rcode_list_2010_B.txt |sed 's+[./]++g' > rcode_list_2010_C.txt

Hmmm. that almost worked.. Now instead I have

18971 aosrp18r
15340 aosrp12r
22996 aosrp08r
17125 aosrp06r

It got rid of the .r which i need
# 4  
Old 03-08-2010
Using character "X" instead of "/" as the delimiter in sed and protecting the "."

Code:
sed -e "sX\./XXg"

# 5  
Old 03-08-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
Using character "X" instead of "/" as the delimiter in sed and protecting the "."

Code:
sed -e "sX\./XXg"

That left me with no space between the size and name

18971aosrp18.r
15340aosrp12.r
22996aosrp08.r
17125aosrp06.r

EDIT: Seen what the issue was with that one, human error!! Thanks for your help guys..

Last edited by Jazmania; 03-08-2010 at 12:28 PM..
# 6  
Old 03-08-2010
This should also work:

Code:
sed 's/\.\///g' file.txt

# 7  
Old 03-08-2010
Or:
Code:
sed 's!./!!' file

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