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# 1  
Old 12-11-2007
Remove 5th character from Field1 & Print

Hi ,

I need to remove the 5th character of column1 and print the rest.
Can anybody give some advice?


Input:

0001c xx
0001r gg jj
0002y vv
0002p kk
0003q gg ll
0003v tt
0003t gg pp kk


Output:

0001 xx
0001 gg jj
0002 vv
0002 kk
0003 gg ll
0003 tt
0003 gg pp kk
# 2  
Old 12-11-2007
Code:
sed -e "s/^\(....\).\(.*\)$/\1\2/g" file.txt


Last edited by vino; 12-11-2007 at 03:08 AM.. Reason: Typo
# 3  
Old 12-11-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vino
Code:
sed -e "s/^\(....\).\(.*\)$/\1\2" file.txt

Hi Vino,

Tried using your code but there's some error.
Can you help ?

Code:
$ sed -e "s/^\(....\).\(.*\)$/\1\2" myfile
Variable syntax

# 4  
Old 12-11-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raynon
Hi Vino,

Tried using your code but there's some error.
Can you help ?
My bad. I have corrected the sed statement.
# 5  
Old 12-11-2007
cat file | cut -c1-4,6-
# 6  
Old 12-13-2007
Hi prowla,

Thanks for your code.
It works just fine.
# 7  
Old 12-14-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raynon
Hi ,

I need to remove the 5th character of column1 and print the rest.
Can anybody give some advice?


Input:

0001c xx
0001r gg jj
0002y vv
0002p kk
0003q gg ll
0003v tt
0003t gg pp kk


Output:

0001 xx
0001 gg jj
0002 vv
0002 kk
0003 gg ll
0003 tt
0003 gg pp kk
Code:
sed -n 's/^\(.\{4\}\). \(.*\)/\1 \2/p' file

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