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Old 06-24-2008
Urgent help needed to delete some text without opening the file in unix
Hi

To delete some text in 2 files in line1 ( not complete line) in unix without opening the files.

For example: source file is like this
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><file-header><source-id>wRLCSSAM</source-id><file-date>2008-06-23</file-date><file-time>05:45:29</file-time></file-header>

and i want the output file as

Code:
<file-header><source-id>wRLCSSAM</source-id><file-date>2008-06-23</file-date><file-time>05:45:29</file-time></file-header>

Thanks in advance
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-25-2008 at 02:43 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 06-24-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by pyaranoid
Hi

To delete some text in 2 files in line1 ( not complete line) in unix without opening the files.

For example: source file is like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><file-header><source-id>wRLCSSAM</source-id><file-date>2008-06-23</file-date><file-time>05:45:29</file-time></file-header>

and i want the output file as

<file-header><source-id>wRLCSSAM</source-id><file-date>2008-06-23</file-date><file-time>05:45:29</file-time></file-header>

Thanks in advance
Code:
sed -n -e "s/<.xml version=[^>]*>\(.*\)/\1/p" input.txt > output.txt

# 3  
Old 06-24-2008
This is not working. PLease advise.

Thanks
# 4  
Old 06-24-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver check this
make sure that all the files which need to be edited are in current directory
Code:
for i in `ls`
do
sed -e 's@<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>@@g' $i >temp; mv temp $i;
done

Good Luck !!!
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-25-2008 at 02:44 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 5  
Old 06-24-2008
Vino's code is working GNU sed and AIX's sed.
# 6  
Old 06-25-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by pyaranoid
This is not working. PLease advise.

Thanks
If you care to share what is not working, or if you can tell us the error you encountered, then we can help you out.
 
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