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# 8  
Old 01-24-2007
No Idea, since I don't know what the input looks like.
# 9  
Old 01-24-2007
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Originally Posted by reborg
No Idea, since I don't know what the input looks like.
Code:
Alice Hughes    21 966-7458
Barbara Swingle 598-9257
John Doe        (96)896-087-7801
Jeff Goldberg   295-3378
Liz Stachiw     71-575-2298
Nina Bergin     (49) 458-896-7408
Susan Goldberg  338-7776
Tony Iannino    386-1295

I am trying to capture only names (first name, last name.. but not numbers). Names and numbers might be seperated with tab or spaces.
# 10  
Old 01-25-2007
Try....
Code:
sed 's/^\([a-zA-Z ]*\).*/\1/g' inputfile

# 11  
Old 01-25-2007
Code:
sed "s/\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]]\([^[:space:]]*\).*/\1 \2/" file

# 12  
Old 03-31-2009
Try octal?
Code:
sed 's/\o011//g' filename

011 (zero one one) is octal for "Horizontal Tab".
Precede the three-digit octal with a lower-case alphabet letter o.
This sed command should delete all instances of the tab character.
I'm using GNU sed 4.1.5
 
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