Question

I have the following string as an example:
ex. “Abandoned 16 1.10 2.62 3.50”

I would like to pipe this result to sed and remove all decimal numbers to leave me with the following:
ex. “Abandoned 16”

I was using the following command: sed ‘s/.//g’
which apparently doesn’t work.

Can someone let me know how to use the wildcard character with sed to remove anything matching “.“.

Thanks

Answer 1

You haven’t said what you want to do with the whitespace, but how about

sed -e 's/[0-9]*\.[0-9]*//g' -e 's/ *$//'