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Old 09-19-2008
Editing a File

Hi all,
I have a file with following contents

# rad124
# radkus
# raddebug
# radtrace

I could like to remove the # and space present before the key word "rad".

Any ways to do this using "subsitution method(:%s/old/new/g)" will be hepful.
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Old 09-19-2008
Code:
sed 's/^# rad/rad/' file >newfile4

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