* Shreerang Patwardhan <patwardhan.shreer...@gmail.com> [100801 14:03]: > Hello all, > I have a file with contents in the following manner: > 10001_abc_county > 10003_abc_xyz_county > 10005_abc_pqr_xyz_county > > Each entry is on a new line and each line begins with a number and ends with > the word county! > > I wish to convert the contents of this file in the form as specified below: > abc > abcxyz > abcpqrxyz
A dirty hack for this would be something like this, (untested but just to give you a general idea), sed -e '^\([0-9]\{5\}\)_\(.*\)_county/\2/' -e 's/-//g' filename Assuming that digit is 5 char long and line ends with"_county". If any help needed some sample of actual data. Shantanu www.shantanukulkarni.org -- _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List