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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Deleting lines in text file Post 302196037 by hern14 on Friday 16th of May 2008 02:30:18 PM
Old 05-16-2008
Hmm..that did not seem to have any results...but thanks anyways. What I did is:

awk 'FNR>15' myfile |grep -v -e "record(s) selected." -e "Return Status" > mynewfile



Don't know if that is the wrong way of doing it. I am sure you experienced folks will have a better way of doing it, but alas, it accomplished what I wanted.

Thanks again!!
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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