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# 8  
Old 06-16-2008
just another possibility
Code:
echo "aaabbb; xxx xxix" | awk -F";" '{print $2}'

# 9  
Old 06-16-2008
or, use perl - if file1 contains "aaabbb; xxx xxix":

[mhuwiler@72 ~]$ perl -pe 's/.*;//g' < file1 > file2
[mhuwiler@72 ~]$ cat file2
xxx xxix

Matt
# 10  
Old 06-16-2008
Oh... are there multiple semicolons in the lines? If you want just the first to be removed, you'll need to tell your regex to not be "greedy" and to match the first occurance on each line. For example if file1 contains

aaabbb; xxx xxix; blah

Code:
[mhuwiler@72 ~]$ perl -pe "s/^.*?;//g" < file1 > file2
[mhuwiler@72 ~]$ cat file2
 xxx xxix; blah

Matt
 
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