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I should know how to do this, but I'm very new to unix.
I have a table of data, which is tab delimited. I need something, preferably sed, that will delete the 2nd value here, while preserving the placeholder:
For some reason was unable to get either of the above suggestions to work.
However, this works except on values at the beginning or end of the line:
sed -r 's/(\t)1(\t)/\1\2/g'
I tried this to replace the ones the beginning, but it didn't work:
sed -r 's/(\t|^)1(\t)/\1\2/g'
Does anyone have a solution to this problem??
The reason why I'd prefer sed is because I know the syntax a little, whereas with awk, I don't know it at all. But if there's an easy awk solution, then by all means please share.
The reason why I'd prefer sed is because I know the syntax a little, whereas with awk, I don't know it at all. But if there's an easy awk solution, then by all means please share.
you have seen the simpler and more readable awk solution, now start your learning journey. See my sig for gawk manual
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