[X-Unix] Sed - remove line numbers

[Eric F Crist]

On Jan 24, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Filipp Lepalaan wrote:

> Probably not the most efficient way of doing it, but:
>
> cat filename | sed -E 's/^[0-9]+\. //' | tr -s '\n'


The only good way I can see to clean this up would be to do the  
following:

sed -E 's/^[0-9]+\. //' filename | tr -s '\n'

No reason to cat, since sed can pull the file in, and it will output  
it, by default to stdout, where you can grab it with tr.

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Eric Crist