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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete a line in a file starting with - Perl one-liner Post 302390929 by ammu on Friday 29th of January 2010 12:08:12 PM
Old 01-29-2010
Delete a line in a file starting with - Perl one-liner

Hi

I need a perl onliner to delete a line in a file starting with few words.
Example

file.txt
----------
my name is don
I live in London
I am woking as engineer

I want to delete a line starting with 'I live in' using perl oneliner and in place edit with out temporary files

Thanks in advance
Ammu
 

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