Shell Programming and Scripting

I've seen that. Did you try the code in post #11 (if your sed allows for the \| construct)?

So many people are trying to help you that I have no idea what input you're using nor which suggested script you're using to get this output. Please repost the input you're using now that you want to be transformed into the last code tagged segment above. And, tell us what OS and commands you're using that produced the 1st code tagged segment above.

Here's the the command and given result:

Code:

sed '/^[^\/]*$/d;s|/[^+]*+|+|g;s|/.*$||g;s/^+//;s/+$//;s/+/ + /g'  file
$ +  
$A$ +  
$A$ + At + K
$A$ + At + i

Not really. If you try out this input:

Code:

+$/ABBREV+ 
+$A$/NOUN+ 
+$A$/NOUN+At/NSUFF_FEM_PL+K/CASE_INDEF_ACC 
+$A$/NOUN+At/NSUFF_FEM_PL+K/CASE_INDEF_GEN

You get this:

Code:

sed '/\//!d; s:/[^+]*+*: + :g; s:^+\|+ *$::g;' file
+$ +  
+$A$ +  
+$A$ + At + K + 
+$A$ + At + K +

OK. There are two problems here.

First, your input has a space at the end of the first two lines of your input file.

Second, you are using a script that RudiC provided in message #11 in this thread that I told you was not portable and would not work on some systems.

If you get rid of the trailing spaces in your input file and use either the sed or awk script that I provided in message #10 in this thread, you'll get the output you expect.

Also, RudiC's sed can be changed to regular sed speak like this:

Code:

sed '/\//!d; s:/[^+]*+*: + :g; s:^+::; s: *+ *$::;' infile