what is wrong with sed 's/\[.*\]//g' textfile
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Bertenshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 5 April 2002 4:55 p.m. To: Nick Rout; CLUG Subject: Re: parsing cat textfile | sed 's/\[.*\]//g' :-) jeremyb. > From: Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/04/05 Fri PM 04:39:28 GMT+12:00 > To: CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: parsing > > I have a string like postfix/smtpd[25532]: I want to cut it off at the > [ so I end up with postfix/smtpd > > how do i do it? > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
