No this is totally wrong.
It will match the lines that begins with #.
* matches the zero or more occurrence of the previous character.
So it will take it as "other than beginning with hash" it will consider as zero occurrence and will
match the lines that begins with #.
Yeah you're right, that was bit too hasty, but your grep solution wasn't correct either.
Anyway, as i posted earlier my preferred solution would be:
How can I delete those lines that starts with a certain letter?
abc def ghi
xyz abc def
ace gik moq
abe imq gxm
I want to delete the line that starts with "x". Thanks! (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have an awk script that would search the input file for line that starts with a number 3 and copies into a new text file.
I want to extend this script to find the lines that either starts with 3 or a or b and copy all those lines into the new file.
Here is what I have so far:... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have one file, I need to check if file exist or not and then remove the lines which starts with ?
My file1.out data is some thing
abcabcppp
xyzxyzpqr
?????????
?????????
Output should be in test.out
abcabcppp
xyzxyzpqr
I am getting the output as below but the File does not exist... (4 Replies)
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comment Now_TB.table column errac is for error messages
1 - first
2 - second
3 -third ;
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I have requirement in my every files starting lines have # needs to be not processing or exclude the that lines.
I have written a code like below, but now working as expected getting ERROR" line 60:
1 #!/bin/sh
2 echo ======= LogManageri start ==========
3
4 #This directory is... (1 Reply)
I have a file like below
#Fields section bald
1234 2345 456 222
abcs dddd dddd ssss
mmmm mmm mmm
i need do not process a files stating with #
I was written code below
while read -r line
do
if
then
echo ${line} >>
elif
then
... (3 Replies)
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Discussion started by: btramer
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
look
LOOK(1) BSD General Commands Manual LOOK(1)NAME
look -- display lines beginning with a given string
SYNOPSIS
look [-df] [-t termchar] string [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The look utility displays any lines in file which contain string as a prefix. As look performs a binary search, the lines in file must be
sorted.
If file is not specified, the file /usr/share/dict/words is used, only alphanumeric characters are compared and the case of alphabetic char-
acters is ignored.
Options:
-d Dictionary character set and order, i.e. only alphanumeric characters are compared.
-f Ignore the case of alphabetic characters.
-t Specify a string termination character, i.e. only the characters in string up to and including the first occurrence of termchar are
compared.
The look utility exits 0 if one or more lines were found and displayed, 1 if no lines were found, and >1 if an error occurred.
FILES
/usr/share/dict/words the dictionary
SEE ALSO grep(1), sort(1)COMPATIBILITY
The original manual page stated that tabs and blank characters participated in comparisons when the -d option was specified. This was incor-
rect and the current man page matches the historic implementation.
HISTORY
A look utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 14, 1993 BSD