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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How can i delete a keyword containing XYZ in unix Post 302352319 by rdhanek on Friday 11th of September 2009 03:40:12 AM
Old 09-11-2009
I apologize for the confusion. But i want to delete the words having XYZ as a part of them and not the total lines.

I have also modified the example above now.
Not sure if this is still possible with grep??
 

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look(1) 							   User Commands							   look(1)

NAME
look - find words in the system dictionary or lines in a sorted list SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/look [-d] [-f] [-tc] string [filename] DESCRIPTION
The look command consults a sorted filename and prints all lines that begin with string. If no filename is specified, look uses /usr/share/lib/dict/words with collating sequence -df. look limits the length of a word to search for to 256 characters. OPTIONS
-d Dictionary order. Only letters, digits, TAB and SPACE characters are used in comparisons. -f Fold case. Upper case letters are not distinguished from lower case in comparisons. -tc Set termination character. All characters to the right of c in string are ignored. FILES
/usr/share/lib/dict/words spelling list ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
grep(1), sort(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 29 Mar 1994 look(1)
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