Hello all,

I am trying to delete all the lines in a particular file having a pattern. The problem is that it has special characters and for some reason is not doing the job.

For eg.

src_file
/home/test/filelist.txt :xxxxgog
/home/test/RCH/ogogogg
/home/test/RYHUJ/HHHH
/home/test/filelist.txt :dfgdfg

target file:
/home/test/RCH/ogogogg
/home/test/RYHUJ/HHHH


So basically I want to remove all the lines that contain the pattern /home/test/filelist.txt

Im using sed to do this but for some reason it is not working.

Any help appreciated.

Try this command

Or just use grep -v

Thankss Zazzy...I didnt know abt the grep -v option...its awesome!!