On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:20 AM Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > François-Xavier >> > >> > >> >> My bad, it should be: >> >> sed 's/0*\([0-9][0-9]*\)/\1/g' >> >> (tests are indeed needed!) > > > Many thanks François. This is almost right, but it is also stripping zeros > that follow a letter, and I only want it to strip zeros that are proceeded by > a period. There are no leading zeros in the first octet of the IP so that > case does not need to be handled. > > Does the \1 refer to what's in the ()'s? So anything that one would wont to > carry through should be inside the ()'s and anything that's outside is > stripped, right? > > >
Would something like to do the trick? echo 198.088.062.01 | sed 's/\.0/./g' 198.88.62.1
