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Old 02-21-2012
How to remove a directory path in a file using sed
Hi,

I want to remove a directory path from a file starting with the bracket using sed command.
eg.
(cd /man/abc/def ; \
aaaaa
bbbb
(cd /man/aaaa/aa; \

op.
aaaaa
bbbb

The "(cd /man" is to be consideres as the start.

I tries the below thing, but it didnt worked. Can anyone help.
s/^\(cd /man/d

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 02-21-2012
Given your file formatting and assuming the lines you want to remove start with "(cd /":
Code:
sed 's/^(cd \/.*//' filename

"." means match any character and
"*" means match any number of characters (the rest of the line)
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Old 02-21-2012
It's considering the path as denoting the end of your regex and messing up.

You could escape everything with \ but that would be annoying and typo-prone. Fortunately you can just use any other character to denote your regex.

Code:
sed 's#cd /man/#cd #g'

# 4  
Old 02-21-2012
Code:
sed '/(cd \/man/d' inputfile

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