aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom 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 tried sed literal wildcard match single character match preceding pattern number times interpreted means match doublequote followed number characters notethis might fail last character line find delete get rid rest line help mon 04 aug 2008 174330 0500 opensuse sed howto strip character end line