Re: sed question

[Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:20:46 +1000 John Habermann wrote:
> I have tried things like the following:
> 
> sed -e 's/^w.*\s//' > log
> 
> thinking that it would delete from the beginning of the line to the
> first white space but it deletes all matched expressions.

(man sed, man grep)

It seems you mean 's/^\w*\s//'

Unfortunately, it seems sed doesn't understand the \w and \s escape
sequences, unlike grep. Better try:

   sed 's/^[[:alnum:]]*[[:space:]]*//'

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