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# 1  
Old 02-26-2014
Remove numbers
how to remove all numbers from this.Using sed command
1. abcd123
2. 312jjs33
# 2  
Old 02-26-2014
Try this :

echo abcd123 | sed 's/[0-9]*//g'
# 3  
Old 02-26-2014
Code:
echo abcd123 | tr -d '0-9'

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# 4  
Old 02-26-2014
Code:
echo "312jjs33" | tr -d '[0-9]'

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# 5  
Old 02-26-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by anbu23
Code:
echo abcd123 | tr -d '0-9'

Thanks


i have some data like
12#abcd!@ -->abcd

ie output should only consider of characters
# 6  
Old 02-26-2014
Code:
echo 12#abcd!@ | tr -cd 'a-zA-Z'

# 7  
Old 02-26-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by anbu23
Code:
echo 12#abcd!@ | tr -cd 'a-zA-Z'

I am getting an error

Code:
 echo "12#abcd!@" | tr -cd 'a-zA-Z'
bash: !@": event not found

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