On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 08:06:28PM -0500, bruce wrote:
> 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/\,+$//' sed.dat
>
> I'm sure it's simple/trivial...
I'm far from a sed expert, but were I doing that I'd start with this,
and move on from there as required:
's/,.*$//'
which is: comma followed by zero or more of anything, followed by end of line.
I think your expression says:
one or more commas, followed by end of line.
Fred
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