Hey guys. Thanks for the delete replies.. Got a quick sed question now.. test file:: head -2 sed.dat 228d98f0_f16a_11e6_9544_1ad613f05f7b,1486934882 22b93712_f16a_11e6_a6ad_1ad613f05f7b,1486934883 want to simply truncate/search/replace the end of each line starting with the "," to get 228d98f0_f16a_11e6_9544_1ad613f05f7b 22b93712_f16a_11e6_a6ad_1ad613f05f7b the following isn't working sed -i 's/\,+\$//' sed.dat sed -i 's/\,+$//' sed.dat I'm sure it's simple/trivial... thoughts... _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx