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Old 07-22-2008
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Code:
grep -vE '^(NPD|NA2)' file > file2
While it's trivial to do this in sed, if there's a way to remove newlines in sed, I've never found it. You could always try piping it into Perl:
Code:
cat file | perl -ne 'print unless /^(NPD|NA2)/;'