[PLUG] File content modification

[Mehul Ved]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM, 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!
>
> I wish to convert the contents of this file in the form as specified below:
> abc
> abcxyz
> abcpqrxyz

Try

sed -e 's/_/ /g' inputfile | sed -e 's/^ *[^ ]* //' | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)
.*/\1/' | sed -e 's/ //g' > outputfile

Not sure if there's a way to do it without piping it so many times.