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# 1  
Old 02-05-2014
Remove the time from the date column
Hi,
I have file named file1.txt with below contents

Code:
cat file1.txt
1/29/2014 0:00,706886
1/30/2014 0:00,791265
1/31/2014 0:00,987087
2/1/2014 0:00,1098572
2/2/2014 0:00,572477
2/3/2014 0:00,701715

I want to display as below
Code:
1/29/2014,706886
1/30/2014,791265
1/31/2014,987087
2/1/2014,1098572
2/2/2014,572477
2/3/2014,701715

# 2  
Old 02-05-2014
Try this:
Code:
awk  -F"[ ,]" '{print $1, $3}' OFS=, file

# 3  
Old 02-05-2014
GNU Awk 4.0.1

Code:
awk -v FS=" |," -v OFS="," '{print $1, $3}' file1.txt

I tripple checked and still managed to post a longer duplicate answer :-)
Last edited by ni2; 02-05-2014 at 08:30 AM.. Reason: Duplicate answer.
# 4  
Old 02-05-2014
Code:
sed 's# .*,#,#' file

# 5  
Old 02-05-2014
OR you may try :

Code:
$ awk 'gsub(/[0-9]+:[0-9]+|[[:space:]]/,x,$1)' OFS=, FS=,   file

# 6  
Old 02-06-2014
Thank you for your timely help
I really thank all the person who sent their response.
All the commands are working.I am happy to access this forum
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