sed replace string of line

[xaitax]

Hi,

i have a file with lots of lines like that


randomstring | randomstring

and i want to remove everything until the "|".

Any ideas how to do this with sed/awk?

TIA!

[SevenMachines]

Been a while, would something like this not do it?

test.txt:

randomstring | randomstring
randomstring | randomstring
randomstring | randomstring
randomstring | randomstring
randomstring | randomstring

$ sed 's/.*\(|.*\)/\1/g' test.txt

| randomstring
| randomstring
| randomstring
| randomstring
| randomstring
I'm a little forgetful on the head twisting hieroglyphs of sed though :)

[EDIT] but
sed -i 's/.*\(|.*\)/\1/g' test.txt
for 'in place' editing obviously

[geirha]

awk -F'|' '{print $NF}' file
sed 's/.*|//' file
ed -s file <<< $'g/.*|/s///\nw'


The last one edits the file.