Remove word after special character "/"

Hi There,

I have one requirement to remove word after character "/".

Input file is

2017-07-12|02|user1l|domain1/userl|0
2017-07-12|02|user2|domain1/user2|5
2017-07-12|02|user3|domain2/user3|0
2017-07-12|02|user4|domain1/user4|432

and require OP file is

2017-07-12|02|user1l|domain1|0
2017-07-12|02|user2|domain1|5
2017-07-12|02|user3|domain2|0
2017-07-12|02|user4|domain1|432

I tried sed and awk but it is removing everything after "/". any suggestion, please

Hello anshu ranjan,

Could you please try following and let me know if this helps.

awk '{sub(/\/[^|]*/,"");print}'   Input_file

Thanks,
R. Singh

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Thanks Ravinder ..!
It works as expected .. :slight_smile: