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# 1  
Old 10-15-2009
Help using SED command
Hi All,

I have converted a HTML page<http://www.imdb.com/chart/top> which consisted of the movie names using a pipelined SED commands to retrieve only the table as shown in the page.

Here is the o/p so far I have got
.......
|22.|8.7|The Usual Suspects|(1995)|239,740|
|23.|8.7|Psycho|(1960)|126,928|
|24.|8.6|The Silence of the Lambs|(1991)|217,130|
|25.|8.6|Sunset Blvd.|(1950)|47,585|
|26.|8.6|The Matrix|(1999)|338,524|
|27.|8.6|Memento|(2000)|238,630|
|28.|8.6|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb|(1964)|141,831|
........

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As can be seen, the o/p shows how the table of movies look on the HTML page.

My query is how to remove the trailing '.' in the first field i.e. rank field of the o/p.

So the expected o/p is :

|22|8.7|The Usual Suspects|(1995)|239,740|
|23|8.7|Psycho|(1960)|126,928|
|24|8.6|The Silence of the Lambs|(1991)|217,130|
|25|8.6|Sunset Blvd.|(1950)|47,585|
|26|8.6|The Matrix|(1999)|338,524|
|27|8.6|Memento|(2000)|238,630|
|28|8.6|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb|(1964)|141,831|

Please remember,
1> The command should remove the trailing dot of the 1st field ONLY.
2 > The rank field ranges from 1 to 250 in value.


Please help me out on this one.


Thanks,
sh_kk
# 2  
Old 10-15-2009
Ad hoc:

Code:
sed 's/.|/|/g' -i table.file

# 3  
Old 10-15-2009
Not working sir !!!

Not sure what -i does. But its anyways replacing the values in 2nd column as well. As mentioned, it needs to affect the 1st column only to remove the trailing dots after ranlk field i.e. 1st field

Please let me know if any information is needed to resolve the query
# 4  
Old 10-15-2009
Try this:

Code:
sed 's/.|/|/'  file > newfile

# 5  
Old 10-15-2009
^^
Sir,

Cannot create temp files for storing the o/p.

And the command is affecting the second column as well. Please have a look at the o/p


|1|9.|The Shawshank Redemptio|(1994|447,83|
|2|9.|The Godfathe|(1972|367,05|
|3|9.|The Godfather: Part I|(1974|214,88|
|4|8.|Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo|(1966|134,48|

Its not working

1 > The values of 2nd field are lost.
2 > For some reason, the closing parenthesis are erased.



Please help out
# 6  
Old 10-15-2009
Code:
[house@leonov] sed 's/.|/|/' -i table.file
[house@leonov] cat table.file
|22|8.7|The Usual Suspects|(1995)|239,740|
|23|8.7|Psycho|(1960)|126,928|
|24|8.6|The Silence of the Lambs|(1991)|217,130|
|25|8.6|Sunset Blvd.|(1950)|47,585|
|26|8.6|The Matrix|(1999)|338,524|
|27|8.6|Memento|(2000)|238,630|
|28|8.6|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb|(1964)|141,831|

# 7  
Old 10-15-2009
This is what I get:

Code:
$ cat file
|22.|8.7|The Usual Suspects|(1995)|239,740|
|23.|8.7|Psycho|(1960)|126,928|
|24.|8.6|The Silence of the Lambs|(1991)|217,130|
|25.|8.6|Sunset Blvd.|(1950)|47,585|
|26.|8.6|The Matrix|(1999)|338,524|
|27.|8.6|Memento|(2000)|238,630|
|28.|8.6|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb|(1964)|141,831|
$ sed 's/.|/|/' file
|22|8.7|The Usual Suspects|(1995)|239,740|
|23|8.7|Psycho|(1960)|126,928|
|24|8.6|The Silence of the Lambs|(1991)|217,130|
|25|8.6|Sunset Blvd.|(1950)|47,585|
|26|8.6|The Matrix|(1999)|338,524|
|27|8.6|Memento|(2000)|238,630|
|28|8.6|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb|(1964)|141,831|

Is there something wrong?
 
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