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Old 01-10-2013
Deleting rows starting with a character and word
Hi,

I have multiple files of same format and I want to delete the lines starting with # and The from all of them

I am using
Code:
 egrep -v '^(#|$)'

for # but unable to do for both # and The

Please guide
Thanks
# 2  
Old 01-10-2013
try:
Code:
egrep -v '^[#$]' infile

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Old 01-10-2013
Code:
egrep -v '^(#|The)' infile

?
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# 4  
Old 01-10-2013
I have used both the following and they are working, but I want to delete both # and The in one command.

Code:
 egrep -v '^(#|$)'  
 egrep -v '^(The|$)'

# 5  
Old 01-10-2013
Code:
grep '^[^$|^#]' file

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# 6  
Old 01-10-2013
try also:
Code:
egrep -v '^(#|The|[$])' infile

# 7  
Old 01-10-2013
@bipinajith: Thanks. Its working but deleting lines starting with TER that I dont want.
@rdrtx1: Thanks its working fine.
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