[PLUG] File content modification

Gaurav Pant gauravggs at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 09:29:32 IST 2010


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Gaurav Pant <gauravggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/8/3 शंतनू (Shantanoo) <shantanoo at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:32, Shreerang Patwardhan
>> <patwardhan.shreerang at gmail.com> 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!

Can be done with awk too..

 cat file  | awk -F'_' '{ for(i=2;i<NF;i++) printf("%s", $i); printf("\n") }'

--dexter




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