The -n option suppresses the automatic output of input lines (that's the default).
The p at the end tells sed to output the lines that matches.
This searches for lines at the left side of the division operator.
The characters within the brackets search for a numeric character or a variable and the space and asteric after the brackets for zero or more spaces.
This is the escaped division operator.
At the right side of the division operator we search for zero or more preceded spaces and a numeric character or a variable.
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in
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Please can someone assist in the script I have made that searches a pattern in a file and delete the whole line containing the pattern.
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cde 2
zzz 3
fdf 4
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1-- Mon Sep 10 08:53:09 CDT 2012
2revoke connect from FR2261;
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Looking forward to your advice for the below:
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
locate
LOCATE(1) BSD General Commands Manual LOCATE(1)NAME
locate -- find files
SYNOPSIS
locate [-d dbpath] pattern
DESCRIPTION
locate searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern. The database is recomputed periodically, and contains the
pathnames of all files which are publicly accessible.
Shell globbing and quoting characters (``*'', ``?'', ``'', ``['' and ``]'') may be used in pattern, although they will have to be escaped
from the shell. Preceding any character with a backslash (``'') eliminates any special meaning which it may have. The matching differs in
that no characters must be matched explicitly, including slashes (``/'').
As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'') is matched as though it were ``*foo*''.
Options:
-d dbpath
Sets the list of databases to search to dbpath which can name one or more database files separated by ``:'', an empty component in the
list represents the default database. The environment variable LOCATE_PATH has the same effect.
FILES
/var/db/locate.database Default database
EXIT STATUS
locate exits with a 0 if a match is found, and >0 if no match is found or if another problem (such as a missing or corrupted database file)
is encountered.
SEE ALSO find(1), fnmatch(3), locate.conf(5), weekly.conf(5), locate.updatedb(8)
Woods, James A., "Finding Files Fast", ;login, 8:1, pp. 8-10, 1983.
HISTORY
The locate command appeared in 4.4BSD.
BSD April 19, 2004 BSD