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Old 08-25-2008
Delete a portion of a line using shell scripting
Hi all,
I am new to awk programs.I have a file like this

1234567@2345|[HELLO]|adcbdefhij: asgdfdasdfhhfd-asdfasd-dsfasdf |0.678|0.0|0.213
1234567@2345|[HELLO]|adcbdefhij: ashhfd-asdfasd-dsfasdf |0.129|0.0|0.411
1234567@2345|[HELLO]|adcbdefhij: asd-aasd-dasdf |0.223|0.0|0.276

I want to delete the text which occurs between @ and :
And also is it possible to remove the theses numbers which occur at the end of every line |0.223|0.0|0.276
This is urgent...Any help would be appreciated....

Thanks in Advance
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Old 08-25-2008
cat $file |sed -e 's/\@.*://' -e 's/\|.*$//'
# 3  
Old 08-25-2008
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS="[@:|]"}{ printf "%s%s\n",$1,$5}' file

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Old 08-25-2008
Thanks a lot to you both! it worked ... the awk gave the exact reslut that i wanted...Smilie
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