Jason Stelzer on 31 Aug 2010 08:21:08 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Sed or awk help?!

  • From: Jason Stelzer <jason.stelzer@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Sed or awk help?!
  • Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:21:00 -0400
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So you want to remove the .cel from the end of each line?

echo foo.cel.cel | sed -e 's/\.cel$//;'
foo.cel

The $ anchor will only remove the .cel if it's the end of the string,
that way intermediary and incidental .cel patterns are left alone.

So, cat | sed > newfile


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:17 AM,  <Daniel.Roberts@sanofi-aventis.com> wrote:
> Hello
> It has been a VERY long time that I have done any scripting..
> So if you would..could you please help me out??
> I have a file 1.7 million lines long..
> It contains nothing but filenames with a .CEL extension..
> What I need to do is prepare another file of the same type but with the
> .CEL file extension ripped out..
> How can I do this in sed/awk?
> Thanks for any help!
> Dan
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