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Old 02-15-2006
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Thanks matrixmadhan and vino!
Regarding vino's code it worked great but I'm not quite sure what the "^" character inside the brakets mean. Does it mean Not Equal To (!=) ? If this is ture is it also true that "^" character will be ignored if the "^" character is not used straight after the first braket "[" ?
# 9  
Old 02-16-2006
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sed -e 's#/[^/ ]*##g'

This is what the sed does. Look for lines that have a / followed by any non / character or a non-whitespace character.

^ as the first character in [] means, ignore all the other characters in that charatcer-class set. [AB^] means match any of these characters. Either A or B or ^.

You should read the sed book given in How to delete a particular text without opening the file.
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