Filtering out text

[123tips]

I am a newbee.

I want to filter out text from lines in a file. Shold I use sed or grep? How do you do this? Here is the file:

table.tbl-arc(table.tbl)
period.tbl-arc(period.tbl)

On each line, I want to filter out everytning from the - to the end of the line so that my output is:

table.tbl
period.tbl

Thanks!

 

[PHV]

man sed

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[feherke]

Hi

Shold I use sed or grep?

Then why you asked this in the [tt]awk[/tt] forum ?

Anyway, here is an [tt]awk[/tt] solution :

awk -F- '{print$1}' /input/file

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/