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# 1  
Old 09-18-2008
Breaking line
My input file is like

USER_WORK.ABC
USER_WORK.DEF


I want output file like

ABC
DEF
# 2  
Old 09-18-2008
Code:
#  sed 's/.*\.//g' infile
ABC
DEF

or

#  awk -F"." '{print $2}' infile
ABC
DEF

or

#  cut -d. -f2 infile
ABC
DEF

...

Smilie
# 3  
Old 09-18-2008
hi Tytalus,

can u pls explain how this works...?



sed 's/.*\.//g' infile
# 4  
Old 09-18-2008
Edit: Tytalus was faster, nvm.
Last edited by zaxxon; 09-18-2008 at 09:19 AM..
# 5  
Old 09-18-2008
Quote:
can u pls explain how this works...?
sed 's/.*\.//g' infile

yeah - sure:
Code:
sed '
s        # substitute
/
.*\.      # anything that matches this pattern - i.e any number of chars followed by a .
//       # with this pattern i.e. nothing - effectively deletes everything up to the .
g'       # globally 
infile

HTH
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