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sed:remove a trailing string

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Name: Tintu
Date: February 5, 2007 at 23:29:11 Pacific
Subject: sed:remove a trailing string
OS: UNIX
CPU/Ram: 2.3 GHz
Model/Manufacturer: IBM

Comment:

Hi,
I have to remove a string from a file.
The content of the file looks like:
var1='123' or id like '111' or id like '222' or id like '345' or id like
I have to remove the last occuring 'or id like' from the file and the output file should be :
var1='123' or id like '111' or id like '222' or id like '345'
I tried the command :
sed 's/[ or id like ]*$//' file1 > file2
It is working fine if the input file is having upto 477 bytes. But if tried with more than 500 bytes nothing is writting to the output.
Could anybody help me.
Is this the right method? If so why it is not working if file size is big?
Or could you suggest any other method?

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Name: thepubba1
Date: February 6, 2007 at 07:55:34 Pacific
Subject: sed:remove a trailing string

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A 20 entry on one line input file works fine and it is 731 bytes in length. I tried it in bash, ksh, and sh to eliminate shell differences.
What OS are you using (probably Solaris, which is where I see most of this weird behavior), what shell and what version of the shell.

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