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Old 12-25-2008
[SOLVED] SED is making my head-hurt...
Hi all!


Shell-scripting n00bie here... I'm having a terrible time getting my head around how to use the sed command & could really use some help. Basically, I'm trying to use sed to remove all characters of a line up to a '<' character within a text-file. It would be spectacular if there would even be a way to do-that on all lines wthin a text-file, as I'm looking to execute this sed command within a shell-script.

Tried the following so-far:

Code:
sed 's/.^<//' $filename

Code:
sed 's/^<//' $filename

Code:
sed 's/.$<//' $filename

Code:
sed 's/$<//' $filename

Thanks!
Last edited by mxedit10n; 12-26-2008 at 10:48 AM..
# 2  
Old 12-25-2008
Did you mean this?

Code:
echo "abc<def" | sed 's/^.*</</'

# 3  
Old 12-26-2008
[Solved] SED is making my head-hurt...
That works perfectly, thx matrixmadhan!!! Smilie
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