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Old 10-19-2009
how to convert this file output
hi, How do I do this with sed and egrep? is that even possible?


I have the following file with this content

Code:
 
#OQ#||1|XDzb34_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||3|XDzc24_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||4|XDze12_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||6|XDzf35_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||7|ADzf38_zc|SETA

1. I want to strip out X and SETA in the 4th column if it contain X in the begin and SETA in the end.

Code:
 
#OQ#||1|Dzb34_zc|SETA
#OQ#||3|Dzc24_zk|SETA
#OQ#||4|Dze12_zf|SETA
#OQ#||6|Dzf35_ze|SETA
#OQ#||7|ADzf38_zc|SETA


2. If the 1st step is true, then I want to strip out underscore second part ,

so the final output file should be:

Code:
 
#OQ#||1|Dzb34|SETA
#OQ#||3|Dzc24|SETA
#OQ#||4|Dze12|SETA
#OQ#||6|Dzf35|SETA
#OQ#||7|ADzf38_zc|SETA


Thanks
Last edited by zaxxon; 10-20-2009 at 03:29 AM.. Reason: C O D E tags
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Old 10-20-2009
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Code:
$> cat infile
#OQ#||1|XDzb34_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||3|XDzc24_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||4|XDze12_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||6|XDzf35_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||7|ADzf38_zc|SETA
$> sed -e '/|X.*SETA|.*/ { s/|X/|/g; s/SETA|/|/g; s/_//g}' infile
#OQ#||1|Dzb34zc|SETA
#OQ#||3|Dzc24zc|SETA
#OQ#||4|Dze12zc|SETA
#OQ#||6|Dzf35zc|SETA
#OQ#||7|ADzf38_zc|SETA

# 3  
Old 10-20-2009
Thanks. But I got a syntax error.
also, your result is slightly different from my original post. your code doesn't remove "text" after the underscore. I need to remove "_" and "text after underscore" if X*SETA exists.



Is it because my sed version is too low for your complicated code?

'X.*SETA' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

when I run it in bash mode, I got error: sed: garbage after command

Note: I used MKS tool in window server. it's unix tool which can run on window.
Last edited by jbchen; 10-20-2009 at 02:54 PM..
# 4  
Old 10-20-2009
Code:
sed 's/|X\(.*\)_.*SETA|/|\1|/' infile

# 5  
Old 10-20-2009
bash
Code:
while IFS="|" read -r a b c d e
do    
    case "$d"  in
        X*SETA )
            d=${d/#X/}
            d=${d/%_*SETA/}
        ;;
    esac
    echo "$a|$b|$c|$d|$e"
done < "file"

# 6  
Old 10-21-2009
You are right - I didn't see that it is needed to delete all characters behind an underscore if there is one up to the pipe.
The problem you got with your sed could be since it is a different version of sed. I am using GNU sed (gsed) which is more comfortable. Other versions of sed have problems with {} in one line - they want their contents etc. in separate lines or by using a ^J which is a bit awkward to write/read.

Nevertheless here you go:

Code:
$> cat infile
#OQ#||1|XDzb34_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||3|XDzc24_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||4|XDze12_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||6|XDzf35_zcSETA|SETA
#OQ#||7|ADzf38_zc|SETA
$> sed 's/|X/|/g; s/SETA|/|/g; s/_[^|]*//' infile
#OQ#||1|Dzb34|SETA
#OQ#||3|Dzc24|SETA
#OQ#||4|Dze12|SETA
#OQ#||6|Dzf35|SETA
#OQ#||7|ADzf38|SETA

 
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