jos van kan iisgilkabelfoonnl david c rankin schreef listmates every time run sed fight im trying locate strip quote everything follows line file called myfile obviously horribly confused ranges escaped parentheses 1 remembered patterns surely sed trees obscuring forest lines myfile like homeicons2filenamegifcapital seal 1 problem middle word something like cat tmpmyfile sed s09azaz1 doesnt work something simple cat tmpmyfile sed find delete get rid rest line randall already showed solve remains explain regular expression match really want delete pattern double_quote_and_all_characters_to_end_of_line asked sed asked look pattern double_quote_followed_by_any_string_of_strings_containing_only_digits_or_letters find string also contains spaces first character double quote furthermore anders explained would delete string found one double quote extra point explain regular expression charset second omitted nothing find always helpful interpret regular expressions way shown regards jos van kan registered linux user 152704 wed 06 aug 2008 115621 0100 opensuse sed howto strip character end line