How to strip all numbers out of a text stream
This is how to remove all text from the output of a file and only keep the other formatting.
homer@deep-thought ~/Desktop/b $ fortune -l | sed s/[a-z]/\ /gi; : 3:15 . . - . , ! -- '84 |
A possibly useless but interesting use of sed. Here I am removing only the numbers from text output. This is another use of sed. The backspace in the sed regex allows us to have a space character to replace the numbers.
homer@deep-thought ~/Desktop/b $ fortune -l | sed s/[0-9]/\ /gi; Q: How many IBM types does it take to change a light bulb? A: Fifteen. One to do it, and fourteen to write document number GC - , Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility, of which % of the pages state only "This page intentionally left blank", and % of the definitions are of the form "A:..... consists of sequences of non-blank characters separated by blanks". |
Here I am replacing all instances of the lowercase ‘a’ with an uppercase ‘A’.
homer@deep-thought ~/Desktop/b $ fortune -l | sed s/[a]/A/gi; Q: MinnesotAns Ask, "Why Aren't there more phArmAcists from AlAbAmA?" A: EAsy. It's becAuse they cAn't figure out how to get the little bottles into the typewriter. |
Here I am removing all of the ‘<' and '>‘ characters from a html file.
cat index.php | head -n 10 | sed s/[\<\>]/\/gi; |
And here is the result.
homer@deep-thought ~/Documents $ cat index.php | head -n 10 | sed s/[\<\>]/\/gi; !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en" head titleSecuritron GNU/Linux pages./title meta name="generator" content="Vim. Debian GNU/Linux." / meta content="text-html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" / meta name="description" content="Securitron GNU/Linux pages. Help and support for Linux and UNIX users." / meta name="keywords" content="GNU/Linux, help, tips, code, Ubuntu, UNIX" / link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" / |