help in deletion part of a line

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:13:49AM +0530, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote:
> On 23-Oct-07, at 4:11 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> >
> >	Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings
> >	(caight by grep) of the sort:
> >
> >	part5.chapter2.text-
> >
> >	where "5" and "2" can be any integer below 10?
> >
> >	(I know how to delete the *entire* line using ed, but not just
> >	the first part?
> 
> $ echo 'part5.chapter2.text-' | tr -d '[0-9]'
> part.chapter.text-
> 
> $ echo 'part5.chapter2.text-' | sed 's/[0-9]//g'
> part.chapter.text-
> 


	This would help unify my regex since I have "part7.chapter4.text"
	as well as misc other shtuff.  (I like tr ... it's easy and has
	many uses... .)

	thanks.

	gary

> 
> regards,
> shantanoo
> 

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