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Old 02-24-2007
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skip reading certain lines in a file
How can I exclude reading lines in a file that contains the following:

filesystem:/home/pach/liv_patches 128005120 88456640 37270758 71% /home/patches

That is, all lines that contain and begins with filesystem: should not be processed/read from a file
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sed -e "/^filesystem:/d" filename

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grep -v "^filesystem:" filename
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Old 03-25-2007
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Hi hagemaro,

I think your solution will only serve the purpose when the word "filesystem" is at the begining.

Please correct if i am wrong.

Cheers
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Old 03-25-2007
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Try this out... This will not show any lines containing the specified word.

Code:
 sed '/filesystem/d' filename

grep 'filesystem' filename
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Originally Posted by jacoden
Try this out... This will not show any lines containing the specified word.

Code:
 sed '/filesystem/d' filename

grep 'filesystem' filename
user wants to exclude lines with "filesystem", so the grep should have -v? anyway, i noticed this thread was started weeks ago.
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Originally Posted by ghostdog74
user wants to exclude lines with "filesystem", so the grep should have -v? anyway, i noticed this thread was started weeks ago.
Sorry ..it was a typo.. It should be grep -v ...
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