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Old 01-25-2007
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Originally Posted by ocelot
Hi,

I am trying to remove duplicate lines from a file. For example the contents of example.txt is:

this is a test
2342
this is a test
34343
this is a test
43434

and i want to remove the "this is a test" lines only and end up with the numbers in the file, that is, end up with:

2342
34343
43434

thanks

Code:
grep -v "[[:alpha:]]" file