On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Shreerang Patwardhan <patwardhan.shreer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > I have a file with contents in the following manner: > 10001_abc_county > 10003_abc_xyz_county > 10005_abc_pqr_xyz_county > > Each entry is on a new line and each line begins with a number and ends with > the word county! > > I wish to convert the contents of this file in the form as specified below: > abc > abcxyz > abcpqrxyz
Try sed -e 's/_/ /g' inputfile | sed -e 's/^ *[^ ]* //' | sed -e 's/^\(.*\) .*/\1/' | sed -e 's/ //g' > outputfile Not sure if there's a way to do it without piping it so many times. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
