Re: sed

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

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"behapy" <behapy@myrealbox.com> writes:
> kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html
> kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi
> kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi
>
> =>
>
> www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html
> kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi
> kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi
>
> I'd like to remove the first words everyliles ~+-
>
> sed -e 's/^*+-//g' SOMEFILE.TXT don't work.
> How do I do?

If I were sed, I'd parse that as ^ (start-of-line) *+ (one or more
asterisks) - (hyphen), which isn't what you want.  You really want
start-of-line, any number of characters which aren't +, +, -; this
translates in sed-ese to

  sed -e 's/^[^+]*+-//g' file.txt

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