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Old 01-07-2009
palanisvr palanisvr is offline
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Line Deletion

Try this :

##--NOn interactive deletion of lines using vi- editor
vi - a.txt <<END
:11d
:12d
:x
END

##the above code will delete 11th and 42nd line , saves the file and exits

dump the above code in a script and execute it ...

you can also achive the same using sed but sed is a temporary one it wont make the changes permanent to the source file....