Hi,

i want to replace some lines in a file "Source.txt" by taking search pattern input from a different file named "abc".

Search pattern input file have following lines:

vi abc
2637918
2707239
2709124
2709148
2709159
2709177
...........

i am running following code:

for i in `cat abc` ;do perl -pi.bk4 -e 's/^.*$i.*//g' Source.txt;done

but it's not working.......
pls help.