remove text from file with script

paul_mat · 11-04-2005, 05:47 AM

hi there,

i've got a text file with a list of email adresses and what i want to do is strip away all the information after the '@'

so turn

user1@example.com
user2@example.com
user3@example.com
user4@example.com

to ..

user1
user2
user3
user4

ilikejam · 11-04-2005, 05:55 AM

Have another sed one-liner

Code:

sed 's/@.*$//' /path/to/file

Dave

paul_mat · 11-16-2005, 07:00 PM

hi ilikejam

i got another sed question i thought you might be able to help me out on.

i was wanting to put the output of this into a variable

sed 's/.*: //' /tmp/tmp

do you know how that can be done?

ilikejam · 11-17-2005, 12:21 PM

Sure.

Code:

MYVARIABLE=`sed 's/.*: //' /tmp/tmp`

Dave