On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:32:47PM +0530, Shreerang Patwardhan wrote: > > 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 > > cat yourfile | cut -d_ -f2- | sed -e 's/_county//' -e 's/_//g' > the cat is unnecessary. Otherwise this looks the cleanest solution. cut -d_ -f2- temp | sed -e 's/_county//' -e 's/_//g' - Nandan
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