Removing decimal points 1

[KenCunningham]

Hi, to save me re-inventing the wheel, has anyone got a simple sed/awk routine or script to remove only decimal points from lines in a file, retaining those in names. For example, a line:

M. R. Russell 45.80

should become:

M. R. Russell 4580

Many thanks.

 

[hoinz]

Hi,
the answer depends on what can be said about the structure of your input data;
e.g. if the decimal point to be removed always is in the same column, cut -c will do it.
hth

 

[aigles]

This sed removes the decimal point which is located between two numbers

sed -e 's/\([0-9]\)\.\([0-9]\)/\1\2/g' file

Jean Pierre.

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks/merci to both - Jean Pierre's was exactly what I was after.