Re: [PLUG] Sed or awk help?!

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:11:50PM -0400, linc wrote:
> Walt Mankowski wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:03:49PM -0400, linc wrote:
> >>DOH!  Yeah, you are right.  Have to use something like:
> >>
> >>sed 's/.CEL//' filename > newfile
> >>instead...
> >
> >That's still not quite right.  You should escape the period and anchor
> >the end of the string.  This is better:
> >
> >sed 's/\.CEL$//' filename >newfile
> 
> Seems to work fine without that??

Try it on

fooCELbar.CEL

I mean, there's a good change that all the instances of CEL occur at
the ends of the filenames, but why take a chance?

Walt

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