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Try to do this instead - 
sed s/://g file.txt > newfile.txt

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And the newfile.txt should have the colons removed.

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Re^2: removing colons
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 07, 2003 at 07:34 UTC
    Recent versions of GNU sed have stolen Perl's -i option, so you can say 
    sed -i 's/://g' file.txt

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    and have file.txt updated in-place.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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