11-01-2007
How to delete line from a file
Hi ,
I have a file it content is like that
/vol.nas/u08/aip_triage/hany/Tesko/:CC::RPAS
/home/biblawh/myscript:CC::RPAS
i need to search for a certain pattern inside that file and delete the line if i find this pattern without redirecting the output into another file .
so i used the following code but i have problem when the pattern that i am looking for is not in the first line :
DelLine=`awk -F':' '{ if ("'"$DPATH"'" == $1) print NR }' file2.txt`
echo $DelLine
/bin/echo "/$DelLine/d\nwq!" | ex -s file2.txt
any clue how can i do that ?
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GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)
NAME
grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [-elnsv] pattern [file] ...
OPTIONS
-e -e pattern is the same as pattern
-c Print a count of lines matched
-i Ignore case
-l Print file names, no lines
-n Print line numbers
-s Status only, no printed output
-v Select lines that do not match
EXAMPLES
grep mouse file # Find lines in file containing mouse
grep [0-9] file # Print lines containing a digit
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches one or more files (by default, stdin) and selects out all the lines that match the pattern. All the regular expressions
accepted by ed and mined are allowed. In addition, + can be used instead of * to mean 1 or more occurrences, ? can be used to mean 0 or 1
occurrences, and | can be used between two regular expressions to mean either one of them. Parentheses can be used for grouping. If a
match is found, exit status 0 is returned. If no match is found, exit status 1 is returned. If an error is detected, exit status 2 is
returned.
SEE ALSO
cgrep(1), fgrep(1), sed(1), awk(9).
GREP(1)