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Need a command to find and remove specific letters from a file | #1 |
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Hi all,
I have a file with tens of thousands of lines. I need to remove specific letters eg eggs, from every line that has the letters in it. Is there a command which can help me do that easily? JJ |
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Posted on: 2009/11/4 3:39
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hi.. i found the answer using sed.
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Posted on: 2009/11/4 6:25
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Re: Need a command to find and remove specific letters from a file | #3 |
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It's always good to post the command you used. It can help others in the future.
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Posted on: 2009/11/4 17:17
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Re: Need a command to find and remove specific letters from a file | #4 |
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For those who get stuck and find this using google or whatnot, sed s/egg// will work. The -i flag will do it in place, but that's easily found using the sed man page.
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Posted on: 2009/11/4 20:02
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Re: Need a command to find and remove specific letters from a file | #5 |
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oops.. sorry. the command which i found was:
sed 's/the_words_that_you_want_remove_goes_here//g' filename > newfilename eg to remove "eggs" in my case from file1 and pipe to new file file2: sed 's/eggs//g' file1 > file2 |
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Posted on: 2009/11/5 9:49
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