topic Re: how to remove percent sign at end of line in Operating System - HP-UX

how to remove percent sign at end of line

Rob Yohn — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:04:27 GMT

I have a file that contains percentage output and I would like to extract just the number without the percent sign. Here is a sample of what the file would contain.

94%
95%
93%
100%

How can I remove the "%" and just extract the number?

Re: how to remove percent sign at end of line

Pete Randall — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:09:26 GMT

Something like this maybe:

cat file |sed 's|%||g'

Pete

Re: how to remove percent sign at end of line

Tim Nelson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:10:36 GMT

or

cat file|tr -d %

Re: how to remove percent sign at end of line

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:11:01 GMT

Hi Rob:

# sed -e 's/%//' file

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: how to remove percent sign at end of line

Rob Yohn — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:12:49 GMT

Thanks all. That is exactly what I was looking for.

Re: how to remove percent sign at end of line

Rob Yohn — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:17:19 GMT

Thanks for the quick response!
Points have been assigned.

Re: how to remove percent sign at end of line

Dennis Handly — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:28:30 GMT

If you want to remove it only on the end of the line (and no whitespaces after it):
sed 's/%$//' file