replace first semicolon occurence

Question

Hi I have a logfile and I want to replace the first semicolon occurence, like:

head1;head2;head3;head4;head5 blabb;blabl;;blab;blabl;;bla

Desired output:

 head1;head2;head3;head4;head5 blabb;blabl;blab;blabl;;bla

With regular expression how can select the first occurrence and replace for ";" I have the next command in sed:

sed -i 's/;;/;/g'

but this one replace all the occurrences file. Is there another way to do?

choroba · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-31 20:04:58Z

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To make the substitution only act once, remove the /g modifier:

s/;;/;/

answered Oct 31, 2018 at 20:04

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