Question about sed command
 

Hello,

Can I use sed to edit a txt file so that i removes all commas and combines the characters together ?

ie:

Before: 111,111,111
After: 111111111

Thanks for any help in advance.

Yes, you certainly can.
A good tutorial will be http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

Thanks syc. I was actually looking at that page. I'll try to find it. Was just wondering for some ideas/tips from the forum. Thanks.

Slightly cryptic hint: Just replace , with something and think globally:)

edit: Slightly less cryptic hint: Just replace , with nothing and think globally.

Simple character replacement or deletion can also be done with tr.

And if the string is already stored in a shell variable, then there are a load of string manipulation techniques available to you.

I must use sed becuase tr is not in my mks toolset. i'm trying to do this in a dos batch file. i'm just not familiar with sed at all (not since school, a long time ago, lol)

Something like this ?

s/,//g

Should do:)

No problem then. But it might help if you mention platform limitations like that when you post. It can have a big effect on whether you get useful answers.

As for your posted command, try it and see. ;)

excellent, thank you that worked ...

Will do, thx David.

Glad to hear it. You might want to mark this thread as solved (in the thread tools)