Can anyone explain me the below and please tell me why it is not accepting large number of strings.
sed ':a;s/(([^,|]+)[|,].*)\2/\1/;ta;y/,/|/;s/||/|/g' file_nm
Pooja#
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Jump to Postwhat do you call «not accepting large number of strings»?
give us a representative input sample,
what the command outputs,
and what it should output.
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Watael
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what do you call «not accepting large number of strings»?
give us a representative input sample,
what the command outputs,
and what it should output.
Pooja#
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My Input File:
AA|BB|CC
a@gmail.com,c@yahoo.co.in|a@gmail.com|a@gmail.com,g@gmail.com,d@gmail.com
y@gmail.com|x@yahoo.in,z@redhat.com|z@redhat.com
c@gmail.com|b@yahoo.co.in|c@uix.xo.in
c@gmail.com|b@yahoo.co.in|c@gmail.com,b@yahoo.co.in
by@gmail.com|by@gmail.com|ww@gmail.com
Out is coming after running the **sed ':a;s/(([^,|]+)[|,].*)\2/\1/;ta;y/,/|/;s/||/|/g' file_nm **
OutPut:
`
AA|BB|CC
a@gmail.com|c@yahoo.co.in||g|d
y@gmail.com|x@yahoo.in|z@redhat|
c@gmail.com|b@yahoo.co.in|c@uix.x
c@gmail.com|b@yahoo.co.in|
by@gmail.com|ww
`
Expected Output:
AA|BB|CC
a@gmail.com|c@yahoo.co.in|g@gmail.com|d@gmail.com
y@gmail.com|x@yahoo.in|z@redhat.com
c@gmail.com|b@yahoo.co.in|c@uix.xo.in
c@gmail.com|b@yahoo.co.in
by@gmail.com|ww@gmail.com
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