I have a file in which I need to eliminate everything after the first ; on every line.So a file like this:sdfsdsdf;fsdfsddf;sdfsd;Will result in this:sdfsdsdffsdfsddfI have looked into grep and sed.  I would appreciate an answer incorporating either of these commands.
grep -- removing text after delimiter token
command line;scripting;grep;sed
sed is probably easiest and faster than awk or perl in this circumstance:sed 's/^\([^;][^;]*\);.*$/\1/' some_file_name