String file substitution (tr command) 1

[Bigcat37]

Hi

how to translate the string aaZ to aZ in my file.
I'm on AIX 5.3 and 5.2

my file is
aaZgteksklkfi.

how to obtain
aZgteksklkfi

Thanks you
Regards
Denis

 

[khalidaaa]

What do you mean by Translation?

Do you mean replacing the aaZ with aZ?

 

[Bigcat37]

I want to substitute the substring aaZ by aZ.
Regards
Denis

 

[mrn]

I'm a little confused too, do you mean the filename or the file contents?

sed -e 's/aaZ/aZ'

or

mv aaZgteksklkfi aZgteksklkfi

or

tr 'aaZ' 'aZ' < inputfile > outputfile

Mike

"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."

 

[Bigcat37]

Sorry Mike

i mean the file contents.

the command tr 'aaZ' 'aZ' < inputfile > outputfile
doesn't work !

the problem is that aZ is smaller than aaZ ...


Thanks
Regards
Denis

 

[khalidaaa]

I think in here you have to create a loop that will look for the occurence of aaZ and replace it with aZ.

I honestly don't have time to do this now but i will try to do it later in my spare time

Regards,
Khalid

 

[DSMARWAY]

try

as mrn suggested

sed 's/aaZ/aZ/' f1 > f3

f1 is your source filename f3 is new file