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Old 10-13-2014
Remove word before a character

Hi,

I have a file which looks like this

id integer,
name string,
create_dt date,

I want to remove all words that are present before the character ,
My output should be

id,
name,
create_dt,

Thanks
wah
# 2  
Old 10-13-2014
Code:
sed -e 's/ *[^ ]*,/,/g' file

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Old 10-13-2014
Try

Code:
awk 'gsub(/ +\w+,/,",")+1' file

Code:
akshay@nio:/tmp$ awk 'gsub(/ +\w+,/,",")+1' <<test
id integer,
name string,
create_dt date,
test

id,
name,
create_dt,

-- OR --

Code:
awk 'gsub(/ [^ ]+,/,",")+1' file


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