Hi!

I've got a file like this:

scaffold_1 3151 C/T C/. C/.
scaffold_1 3169 T/G T/. T/.
scaffold_1 3170 A/G A/. A/.
scaffold_1 3173 G/A G/. G/.
scaffold_1 3303 T/A T/. T/.
scaffold_1 3309 A/C A/. A/.
scaffold_1 3311 A/G A/. A/.
scaffold_1 3326 T/A T/. T/.
scaffold_1 3341 T/G T/. T/.
scaffold_1 4108 A/. A/G A/.
scaffold_1 4131 A/. A/G A/.

I would like to remove all the /. and leave de letters alone. I managed to remove . or / with sed, but not both of them. Can you help me. I need to keep the slash between two letters, just want to remove /.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Have a look at this:

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It worked!

Thanks a lot!

Just to make it perfectly clear, there are two issues involved here.

1) The "/" conflicts with sed's traditional 's' command separator. Solution: use another separator. sed can use any basic ascii character, so just choose one that's not found in the string. Good ones to use are often ^, #, @, _, and |.

You could also simply backslash escape it if you wanted, but that tends to be less readable.

2) "." is the regular expressions operator for matching "any single character". So "/." in your expression would also match, for example, "/A". Solution: either backslash escape the dot, or confine it within a regex bracket expression "[.]".

Thank you very much, now I know why id did not work!

Javier