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Old 01-05-2009
removing characters

Hi all,

Any help on how to do the following? Smilie

I have an infile as follows:
_thisishowyouwritehelloworld
_thisisalsohowyouwritehelloworld2

I want to delete the characters from "_" to "how" and be left with:

youwritehelloworld
youwritehelloworld2

I am able to do delete from a string to the end of a line like this:
sed 's/how.*$//' infile > outfile Smilie
But I want to delete from the beginning of a file to a chosen string

Thankyou in advance for any help Smilie

Layla
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Old 01-05-2009
USe ^ from the beginning

Use "^".

sed 's/^.*how//' infile > outfile
# 3  
Old 01-05-2009
Oh my, of course. I guess I didnt fully understand what I had done before. Smilie

Thankyou..it works fine.Smilie
 
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