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

sed -e "/^filesystem:/d" filename

or

grep -v "^filesystem:" filename

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

Try this out... This will not show any lines containing the specified word.

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 ...