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Old 04-11-2011
replace multiple existence of : symbol with one
Infile

Quote:
policy:::cngptpid
policy:::budget87
policy:::cntrstat
Outfile
Quote:
policy:cngptpid
policy:budget87
policy:cntrstat
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Old 04-11-2011
sed 's/\([^:]*\):*\([^*]*\)/\1:\2/'
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Old 04-11-2011
Code:
cat infile | tr -s ":" > outfile

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Old 04-11-2011
awk 'BEGIN { FS=":*";OFS=":" } { print $1,$2 }
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