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Re: [PLUG] Sed or awk help?!
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Walt Mankowski wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:23:44PM -0400, linc wrote:
Walt Mankowski wrote:
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
HEH! How about THIS one...:
sed 's/\.CEL//g' filename > newfile
Now I know why I hate sed :)
Nope, still wrong. That will delete all the occurences of ".CEL"
anywhere in the filename. Again, it will probably work, but it would
fail on something like
foo.CEL.bar.CEL
The best way to match ".CEL" at the end of a string is how I did it in
my example. First, you need to escape the ".", because otherwise it
matches any character before CEL. Second, you need to add a $ to the
end of the regex. That achors it to the end of the string, and
prevents it from matching ".CEL" occuring anywhere else.
I don't know why you decided to add a /g to the end of your
expression. That causes sed to go a global replace all the occurences
of the regex. Daniel said he only wanted to replace ".CEL" when it
was at the end of the string.
Walt
Actually what he said was:
"I have a file 1.7 million lines long..
It contains nothing but filenames with a .CEL extension.."
That doesn't necessarily mean it's one filename per line right? Global
seemed to be the best choice to "get 'em all" I guess..
:)
--
-Linc Fessenden
In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
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