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Old 05-28-2010
Truncate the word from a sentence
Hi,

The first line of a file is as follows:
Code:
example.4ge v.45352          Report for April    28 May 2010

I need to remove the word example.4ge v.45353 from that line. I used the following command to truncate it
Code:
sed 's/example.4ge v.45352//g' $filename

But here the version number 45352 may vary. So how can I make it as generic for any numbers?

Can anybody help me out?

Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 05-28-2010 at 08:31 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 05-28-2010
You can modify your command with:

Code:
sed 's/example.4ge v.*Report/Report/g' $filename

# 3  
Old 05-28-2010
try
Code:
sed 's/example.4ge v.[1-9]*//g' file_name

# 4  
Old 05-28-2010
using Perl:
Code:
perl -pi -e 's/example\.4ge\s+v\.\d+\s+//' filename

# 5  
Old 05-28-2010
Thanks a lot for your valuable replies..!!

Its working fine.. Smilie
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