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Old 04-10-2016
Replace string at begining of the line
Hello again people,

I have a list of websites in this format:

Code:
domain.com
domain1.com
domain2.com
domainwww.com
domain2www.com
domain3www.com
www.domain.com
www.domain2.com
www.domain3.com

I want to replace the string "www." with "nothing" but only lines that start with "www."

Thank you.
# 2  
Old 04-10-2016
What haveyou tried? Do you know about regular expressions: hint '^www\.' would locate what string?
# 3  
Old 04-10-2016
Hah that worked... I tried it with
Quote:
instead of
Quote:
---------- Post updated at 12:17 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:54 AM ----------

Actually it doesnt work.. tested now..

Output from nano:

Code:
[ "'^www\.'" not found ]

Code:
sed 's/'^www/.'//g' dom1 >> dom3

I dont think I got this right..


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Last edited by RudiC; 04-10-2016 at 02:32 PM.. Reason: Added code tags
# 4  
Old 04-10-2016
There's too many ' in the sed command, and jim mcnamara posted the dot correctly escaped.
 
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