randall r schulz rgpoguasonicnet friday 15 february 2008 0851 david c rankin wrote 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 sed odd duck though mostly esoteric options operations ones pretty simple sed e tmpmyfile resultfile please break habit cat somefile somecommand unix command take file names specifications input operate help calm david c rankin randall schulz tue 05 aug 2008 225437 0800 opensuse sed howto strip character end line