removing commas from text file

[gfunk123]

Dear all

I have a file which looks like this

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,xxx,xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,xxx,xxxxxxxxxx

etc

basically 14 characters then a comma, three characters, then a comma then 10 characters. We are uploading this file to our mainframe and they want the commas removed, so it looks like this

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Has anybody got any ideas on how to do this?. Note, the file will always be the same format, but will vary in the number of lines


Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[bpinos]

There are two ways to do this...

From within vi:

:%s/,//g

That will remove every "," in the file.

Second way to do this from the UNIX prompt:

sed /,//g inputfile > outputfile

Hope this helps!

 

[Chapter11]

[tt]cat data | tr -d ','[/tt]

 

[vgersh99]

UUOC:
tr -d ',' < data
vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[marsd]

gawk:

awk ' {
    gsub(/,/,"",$0)
    print
}' filename > outfile