Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

Our application installation uses "sed" command to delete rest of line. It work perfect on Linux but fail on Solaris.
The OS versions are Solaris 9 and Linux Red Hat AS 3.

yourfile.txt

Code:

hello and world
cat and dog
hello world

in linux:

Code:

cat yourfile.txt | sed ‘s/\([^ ]\+\) *and.*/\1/g' > out.txt

then my out.txt look like now

Code:

hello
cat
hello world

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in Solaris

Code:

cat yourfile.txt | sed ‘s/\([^ ]\+\) *and.*/\1/g' > out2.txt

out2.txt

Code:

hello and world
cat and dog
hello world

Any one know why it does not work on Soloris?

Thank very much

Kevin

Moderator's Comments:

mail address removed, the forums are for the benefit of all, so all Q&A should take place in the forums.

Code:

echo 'hello and world' | sed 's/\([^ ][^ ]*\) *and.*/\1/g'

If this is NOT what you want, explain what you're trying to achieve.

Code:

sed 's/ and.*//' yourfile

Thanks very much , I think it work.

kevin