sed

Use sed to edit text in files.

Example

To strip out all characters that start with 0.0. and afterwards (to the right), then saves the results to test-f-april-30-clean:

sed 's/0.0.*//' test-f-april-30 > test-f-april-30-clean

https://serverfault.com/questions/398187/how-to-delete-all-characters-in-one-line-after-with-sed

Example

To remove all | characters from file:

sed 's/[|]//g' f-april-19-clean > test

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33110/using-sed-to-get-rid-of-characters

Example

To delete all blank characters:

sed '/^$/d;s/[[:blank:]]//g' bak_f-april-19-clean2 > test4