HOw to delete a specific text from description line 1 of a fastaq file ?

Question

[majeedaasim]

I have a fastq file to run TRinity on it. BUt I am getting an error which arises due to the following problem

HWI-ST499:111:D0G94ACXX:6:2203:18045:47806_forward/1
CACCCATCTGAGCTAATGTGCCCCATTTATTCTCACGTTATCAAACCTACAAAGGCCACTTCTCTCCAACTCCTCACTTCACCTTAGTGCAATCGGTAGAC
+
CCCFFFFFHHHHHJJJJJGJJJJJJJJJIJJIJJIGGIIIJIGGIHIIJJJGIFDGGIJJJIJIJJJIJJIJHHHHHHFFFDFDEEEEEDDCCDDBB@BD>

There appears "_forward" in line one in read 1 and "_reverse" in read 2 This is causing the problem. HOw could I delete "_forward" and "_reverse" from the read1 and read2 respectively. ? THanks

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

 sed 's/_\(forward\|reverse\)//'