Re: sed question

From: Carlos Sousa (csousa_at_tvtel.pt)
Date: 08/31/03

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    Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:10:14 +0100
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    On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:20:46 +1000 John Habermann wrote:
    > I have tried things like the following:
    >
    > sed -e 's/^w.*\s//' > log
    >
    > thinking that it would delete from the beginning of the line to the
    > first white space but it deletes all matched expressions.

    (man sed, man grep)

    It seems you mean 's/^\w*\s//'

    Unfortunately, it seems sed doesn't understand the \w and \s escape
    sequences, unlike grep. Better try:

       sed 's/^[[:alnum:]]*[[:space:]]*//' 

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