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Old 07-31-2006
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Delete lines containing text with sed
hello all
I have bunch of files containing lines of text that surrounding by <# …….#> tags
I like to delete this lines from the text files whiteout open the files , can it be done with sed ?
or other unix tool (perl mybe )?
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Use for blank lines:

Code:
perl -p -i -e 's/^.*<#.*#>.*$//' file

For delete lines:

Code:
perl -i.old -ne 'print unless /^.*<#.*#>.*$/' file

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Old 08-01-2006
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Smile Hi!
yup it can be done through sed.U have put a line in a script and run it against sed.

s/^#//g
hope it will solve ur prob.

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