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Old 07-07-2003
sed to end of line
I know this is going to be an easy anwer, but I haven't been able to figure this out - even with the help of the previous posts. I want to go from this

PROD USER anon;

to this

TEST;

I have coded a few sed commands, and none of them are getting the job done. anon will not always be the user name, it can change. I've tried

sed s/PROD*$/TEST/g FILE > NEWFILE

and other variations to no avail. I am using ksh. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Baxter
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Old 07-07-2003
Try: sed 's/PROD.*$/TEST/g' < FILE > NEWFILE

The thing you have to remember is that with sed, the asterisk doesn't mean "one or more characters" - it means "one or more of whatever character comes before me". Therefore, your sed command is actually looking for PRO[zero or more D's][end of line], which would match PRO, PROD, or PRODDDD.

However, the decimal point is the wildcard character meaning "any character", so the combination of .* means zero or more characters.
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Old 07-08-2003
The period is what I needed. Thanks again for the help, Oombera.
 
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