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Old 02-20-2009
delete lines containing a specific word in afile

Hi,

Please suggest how to write a shell script which delets all the lines containing the word unix in the files supplied as argument in the shell.
# 2  
Old 02-20-2009
Code:
grep -v keyword

# 3  
Old 02-21-2009
Hi,


sed '/UNIX/d' inputfile > output

or

if you are using variable ...then
sed -e '/'$var'/d' inputfile > output

Thanks
Sha
# 4  
Old 02-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteboard
Code:
grep -v keyword

better yet, add word boundaries:
Code:
grep -v "\<unix\>" filename

this takes care of words such as unixed and unix1
# 5  
Old 02-23-2009
Thank you

Thank you all for the suggestions.
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