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Old 09-01-2008
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Hi Vidya,
ur sed commnd is replacing the input seach pattern line with nothing but.... size of output file is getting 3 times more than the orignal file.... means each time after replacing the matched line with nothing the command is adding the entire file into the output file again....

pl help anybody.......hw to overcome this problem...