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Old 11-01-2009
how to delete records with the given line numbers

I have a file which has about 10000 records and I need to delete about 50 records from the file. I know line numbers and am using
Code:
sed '134,1357,......d' filename > new file

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It does not seem to be working.
Please Advice

Last edited by pludi; 11-01-2009 at 10:27 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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