[SOLVED] newbie sed question: remove Language : from string

[clickalot]

His,

first time i use sed. I need to remove/delete the string "Language :"

I can remove either "Language" or ":", but "Language :" doesn't work...
e.g.:
$ echo "Subtitles: Language : French,Language : English,Language : Dutch,Language : German,Language : Polish,Language : French,Language : English,Language : Dutch,Language : German,Language : Polish," | sed 's/Language ://g'

help appreciated

[Kieren]

You need to escape the spaces:

echo "Language : Polish" | sed 's#Language\ :\ ##'

[clickalot]

(...)
ext="Audio: Language : Japanese,Language : French,Language : English,Language : German"

ext=`echo "$ext" | sed 's/Language\ ://g'`

doesn't work

but if i substitute echo "$ext" with echo $ext, like this:

ext=`echo $ext | sed 's/Language\ ://g'`

it works!

maybe its time to call it a day

PS: btw:

ext=${ext//Language\ :/}

also doesn't work............

[Kieren]

It seems to work for me:

kieren@George-Michael:~$ ext="Audio: Language : Japanese,Language : French,Language : English,Language : German"
kieren@George-Michael:~$ ext=`echo "$ext" | sed 's/Language\ ://g'`
kieren@George-Michael:~$ echo $ext
Audio: Japanese, French, English, German

[clickalot]

Thanks Kieren,

i found the problem:

my $ext had extra formating characters...

in fact i don't need to escape the space in my case. Both

ext=${ext//Language :/}

and

ext=`echo "$ext" | sed 's/Language ://g'`

work just fine