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Old 07-07-2009
Hmm. Perhaps you have strange control characters in your input file.

Maybe you could check that, or upload the file as an attachment.
# 9  
Old 07-07-2009
Try this,

awk '! /\:[ ]*$/ { print }' <Filename>

And redirect the final output to another file.
 
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