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Old 03-11-2013
Remove a substring from string
Good morning friends,

how can i remove a string with linux scripting from a file? In specific i want to remove from a file all the tweet names and links
eg
@aerta and links such as http://dst.co/pIiu3i9c

Thanx!!!
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Old 03-11-2013
Code:
sed -e "s?http://[^ ]*??g" -e "s/@aerta//g" file

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Old 03-11-2013
anbu23's proposal is fine, but you may want to replace s/@aerta//g by s/@[^ ]*//g so your script will be more generic.
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Old 03-11-2013
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Originally Posted by anbu23
Code:
sed -e "s?http://[^ ]*??g" -e "s/@aerta//g" file

Thanks for the replay it seems to work for the links but the usernames can be anything... not just @aerta

Thanks for your reply!!!

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That is exactly what i wanted!!! Thanks, have a nice day!!
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Old 03-11-2013
A perl:
Code:
perl -pe 's/@\S+|http:\/\/\S+//g' infile

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