Replace character in between?? gedit??

Drigo · 04-04-2013, 01:55 PM

Lets say I have a file with the following text:

index="1" x="59" y="12" z="44"> Middle cerebellar peduncle
index="2" x="89" y="97" z="40">Pontine
index="3" x="93" y="152" z="77">Genu of co
index="4" x="95" y="100" z="97">Body
index="5" x="85" y="89" z="88">Spleniu
index="6" x="89" y="116" z="88">For
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**I want to remove all the character between "x" and ">". Usually I use gedit to do so but I dont know how to replace the character to look like this:

index="1" Middle cerebellar peduncle
index="2" Pontine
index="3" Genu of co
index="4" Body
index="5" Spleniu
index="6" For
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shivaa · 04-04-2013, 02:02 PM

If there's a whitespace between '>' and word next to it in all lines, you can simply use awk, as:

Code:

~$ awk 'BEGIN{FS=" "}; {print $1,$5,$6,$7}' infile

danielbmartin · 04-04-2013, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shivaa

If there's a whitespace between '>' and word next to it in all lines ...

You can force that by replacing '>' with a blank, thusly ...

Code:

awk '{sub(/>/," "); print $1,$5,$6,$7}' $InFile

Daniel B. Martin

danielbmartin · 04-04-2013, 03:32 PM

Consider a sed solution ...

Code:

sed -r 's/(" )(.*>)/\1/' $InFile

Daniel B. Martin

Drigo · 04-04-2013, 03:43 PM

Thanks!

I was looking for a command like:
$replace <whatever is in between "x" and ">" with " " > kind of script/command line other than just awk or sed... :/

danielbmartin · 04-04-2013, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drigo

... other than just awk or sed... :/

If you don't like awk or sed, look at this ...

Code:

cut -d'"' -f1-2,9- $InFile |tr '>' ' '

Daniel B. Martin

grail · 04-04-2013, 06:26 PM

If you do not wish to use a specific tool, you will need to let us know what you do wish to use?

As it is, the 2 you are discounting would be the general go to for something of this nature.

chrism01 · 04-04-2013, 06:37 PM

In vi / vim

Code:

:s/ x=.*>//