Remove substring in file using sed command

Question

Remove substring in a file using sed command in shell

Eg.

cat TR

SAM9001,SAM9002,SAM9005


**Output:**

9001,9002,9005

Gautam · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-24 11:37:07Z

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You can try this :

sed -i 's/SAM//g' TR

answered Sep 24, 2018 at 11:37

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pLumo · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-24 11:42:00Z

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using grep:

grep -o "[0-9]*" TR

Add | paste -sd, to make it comma-separated.

answered Sep 24, 2018 at 11:42

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