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is there a wild card for pattern?

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Name: samarjith
Date: January 8, 2009 at 11:09:16 Pacific
OS: Windows 2000
CPU/Ram: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00 GHz
Product: Ibm / T43
Subcategory: Software Problems
Comment:

I want to replace the following in a file.

test1
test2
test3
test4

so is there any wild card to substitute all numeric postions at the end, which can use with test to replace all test strings that ends with a number. Thanks in advance.

Samar



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Response Number 1
Name: lankrypt0
Date: January 8, 2009 at 12:39:27 Pacific
Reply:

What do you want to replace those with?


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Response Number 2
Name: samarjith
Date: January 8, 2009 at 12:58:19 Pacific
Reply:

with "test"


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Response Number 3
Name: lankrypt0
Date: January 8, 2009 at 12:59:52 Pacific
Reply:

sed -e "s/test[0-9]*/test/g" filename


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