Re: [PLUG] Sed or awk help?!

[linc <linc@lincgeek.org>]

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
>
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HEH!  How about THIS one...:

sed 's/\.CEL//g' filename > newfile
Now I know why I hate sed :)
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-Linc Fessenden

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