topic Re: SED in Operating System - HP-UX

SED

Matt Dunfee — Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:20:35 GMT

I have a file that looks similar to the following:
server1_138476245,
server2_543989432,
server3_534242389,

Is there any way to manipulate this file to remove the ",". I suspect the 'sed' command could be used, but unfortunately I'm not too familiar with this utility.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
-Matt

Re: SED

S.K. Chan — Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:26:53 GMT

You can do ..

# cat | sed 's/,//g' >

Re: SED

S.K. Chan — Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:29:10 GMT

or ..

# cat | tr "," "\000" >

The \000 is the null character.

Re: SED

Wodisch — Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:28:54 GMT

Hello Matt,

if you would like to get rid of ALL commas, then it is enough to

tr -d "," < org-file > new-file

But if you only want to get rid of the trailing commas, you'll need something like

sed 's/,$//' < old-file > new-file

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch