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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete line till certain point Post 302184332 by era on Friday 11th of April 2008 07:43:50 AM
Old 04-11-2008
Without knowing how the bold characters are encoded, we can only guess. There is no single unambiguous standard for this, but ANSI escape codes are probably a good guess.

A complexity is that the bold codes contain control characters, which cannot be typed here (and might be hard to type on your keyboard).

The general solution to this problem is to replace (with sed, for example) everything up to the string you want to find -- the bold code, in your case (if I understand correctly). As a proof of concept, try this:

Code:
sed 's/.*fnord//'

When you type something, if it contains the word "fnord", everything up to and including that word is removed. (Type ctrl-D to stop.)

Now, you want to do the same with the bold code as the magic word, but that is hard to type and hard to guess. But you could try asking the "tput" command to insert the bold code for you, so you don't even have to know what it is.

Try this:

Code:
sed "s/.*`tput smso`//" file

See the tput manual page for some other things to try if that doesn't work for you. Or if you know what the bold code is (maybe from looking at your file), see if you can copy+paste or type that in.
 

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delete_directory

delete directory(1m)													      delete directory(1m)

NAME

       delete directory - Deletes a directory

SYNOPSIS

       cdscp delete directory directory-name

ARGUMENTS

       The full name of the directory.

DESCRIPTION

       The  delete  directory  command	deletes a directory.  The directory cannot contain any object entries, soft links, or child pointers.  The
       master replica must be the only remaining replica in the cell.  Use the delete replica command if you need to remove read-only replicas.

   Privilege Required
       You must have delete permission to the directory and write permission to the clearinghouse that stores the master replica of the directory.
       The  server  principal  needs  administer  permission  to the parent directory or delete permission to the child pointer that points to the
       directory you intend to delete.

NOTE

       This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.

EXAMPLE

       The following command deletes the directory /.:/eng from the namespace: cdscp> delete directory /.:/eng

RELATED INFORMATION

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