Re: Sed advice needed

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/31/07 11:05, Piers Kittel wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need to delete some words out of a large file containing information 
> about packets I'm analysing.  I know I can use sed to do this, but 
> haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to do it.  Two 
> example lines are as of below:
>
> "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload 
> type=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark"
> "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload 
> type=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54521, Time=1725616276"
>
> I need to convert the above to the below:
>
> "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","54520"
> "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","54521"
>
> What's the best way to do this?  I've been reading the man pages of sed, 
> cut and awk but I can't quite figure out how to do this.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks very much for your time in advance!

awk might be a better fit for this.

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