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Old 01-17-2014
USING sed to remove multiple strings/words from a line
Hi
I use sed comnand to remove occurance of one workd from a line.
However I need to removed occurance of dufferent words in ne line.

Original-1
Code:
Hi this is the END of my begining

Comand
Code:
sed s/"END"/"start"/g

Output-1
Code:
Hi this is the start of my beginig

But I have more than one text that I need to remove on the line:

example of a line:

Code:
User Name is TOM And Application type is PLAY the position is <END>

I want to remove "Name is" as well as "type is" as well as "<END>"

Output Should look like this:

Code:
User TOM And Application PLAY the position is

I can do several SED commands .. but there must be an easy way to combine all this into one sed command?

How do u combine multiple strings to be replaced into one line?

Thanking you in advance
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-17-2014 at 03:56 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 01-17-2014
Code:
sed 's/whatever/something/g;s/whateverelse/somethingelse/g' myFile

# 3  
Old 01-17-2014
I cannot use the ; to combine the sed command multiple times .. I'm using sed in context of a PIPE so no I tried that and that is not what I 'm looking for .. I can do lultiple PIPES .. example

Code:
cat file | sed  s/a/b/g  | sed s/c/d//g

This will not work

cat file | sed s/a/b/g;sed s/c/d//g

---------- Post updated at 03:02 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:01 PM ----------

there must be another way to combine the sed command???????
Last edited by Scott; 01-17-2014 at 04:53 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 4  
Old 01-17-2014
Code:
cat file | sed 's/\(Name is\|type is\|<END>\)//g'

this should do what you want.
EDIT:
Code:
cat file | sed 's/\(Name is\s*\|type is\s*\|<END>\)//g

this one should remove the trailing spaces as well, if you want that
Last edited by Deimos; 01-17-2014 at 04:22 PM..
# 5  
Old 01-17-2014
There is a difference between your not working
Code:
... | sed s/a/b/g;sed s/c/d/g

and vgersh99's multiple sed commands within one sed script
Code:
... | sed 's/a/b/g; s/c/d/g'

# 6  
Old 01-17-2014
HI thanks Demios - To be exact I tried ur command .. something not going right ?

this is the command I'm using and the output

Code:
grep -i overflow server.log | sort | grep user1 
<xyzalert.1.s2ss: Info: Fri Dec 06  09:21:18 2013> User mtietjan at position 170.198.18.74/net on host 170.198.18.74 using application 91 has been disconnected.<END>

I need to get rid of the following .1.s2ss: and < and .<END>

I tried this . .there seems to be a syntax maybe I have to escape some of the periods and special charatcer .. not sure really . .tried few different combination and not working

Code:
grep -i overflow p2ps.log | sort | grep mtietjan | sed 's/\(/.1.p2ps: Info:\|<end>\)//g'

Last edited by Scott; 01-17-2014 at 04:54 PM.. Reason: Added code tags [19th time]
# 7  
Old 01-17-2014
try:
Code:
sed 's/\(\.1\.p2ps: Info:\|<END>\)//g'

LMK how it works out
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