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Old 11-30-2009
deleting when nothing is there

Hey

I know how to use grep to eliminate a row when nothing there is a character that I dont want. But I encountered a problem where there is nothing there. Heres my example:

Code:
Nam1  
Nam2  Year
Nam3  Month

So for Nam1 there is nothing in the second column so I want to delete it... so anything that has nothing in the second column should be removed.

Code:
Nam2  Year
Nam3  Month

I tried grep but what do i grep for?

or is there a faster solution? Smilie

thanks
 

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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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