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Old 12-11-2015
Replace String at the start of each line
Replace String at the start of each line
Last edited by Mahesh_RPM; 12-11-2015 at 11:27 AM..
# 2  
Old 12-11-2015
Well, What have you tried so far?

Anyways, Here it is..
Code:
sed 's/^Delete_[0-9]*_//' file_name

-Ranga
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Old 12-11-2015
Replace String at the start of each line
Thanks, It works fine Smilie

I made a mess with the Script.
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Old 12-11-2015
I thought you said you also wanted to changed Off (or in your sample input file off) to On. Maybe you need something more like:
Code:
sed 's/^Delete_[0-9]*_//;s/|[Oo]ff|/|On|/' file

which, if file contains your sample input, produces the output:
Code:
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1525>|_|202234303|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk10.1236)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1526>|_|202234304|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk11.1236)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1522>|_|202234308|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk7.1236)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1521>|_|202234309|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk4.1236)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1518>|_|202234311|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(GigabitEthernet4/1/0.157)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1524>|_|202234312|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk9.1236)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1519>|_|202234317|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk1.1236)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1523>|_|202234319|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk8.1236)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<1520>|_|202234323|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk2.1236)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6910>|_|202695789|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk17.1143)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6877>|_|202695790|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk17.1137)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6786>|_|202695791|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk16.1181)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6736>|_|202695792|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk16.1167)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6842>|_|202695793|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk16.1233)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6883>|_|202695794|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk17.1101)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6975>|_|202695795|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk17.1116)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6815>|_|202695796|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk16.1029)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6817>|_|202695797|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk16.1033)|_|
nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03_If<6801>|_|202695798|_|On|_|nl-gv-twv-ngeb-ne40e-x8-03(Eth-Trunk16.1164)|_|

the first two lines of which match the output you said you want. If you meant that you just want to process the first two lines in the file and ignore the rest, try:
Code:
sed 's/^Delete_[0-9]*_//;s/|[Oo]ff|/|On|/;3,$d' file

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