Sed confusion - Shell Programming and Scripting

alfredo123 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-16-2006

Hello all,

I am trying to delete all the lines in a particular file having a pattern. The problem is that it has special characters and for some reason is not doing the job.

For eg.

src_file
/home/test/filelist.txt :xxxx

gog
/home/test/RCH/ogogogg
/home/test/RYHUJ/HHHH
/home/test/filelist.txt :dfgdfg

target file:
/home/test/RCH/ogogogg
/home/test/RYHUJ/HHHH

So basically I want to remove all the lines that contain the pattern /home/test/filelist.txt

Im using sed to do this but for some reason it is not working.

Code:

sed -e 's/\/home\/test\/filelist.txt$//g' srcfile > /home/abc/tgtfile

Any help appreciated.

mona · #2 (**permalink**) 11-16-2006

Try this command

Code:

sed '/\/home\/test\/filelist.txt/ d' srcfile

zazzybob · #3 (**permalink**) 11-16-2006

Or just use grep -v

alfredo123 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-17-2006

Thankss Zazzy...I didnt know abt the grep -v option...its awesome!!

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