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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with finding text and deleting line Post 302437504 by ichar on Thursday 15th of July 2010 08:47:21 AM
Old 07-15-2010
help with finding text and deleting line
HI All, I need to search for a particular pattern input by the user in order to delete the line. My username.txt has
Code:
username@email.com:John:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.com:Harry:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.net:Alex:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.edu:Nemo:149.0.3.4:1

The program i written
Code:
#!/bin/bash

echo " Insert email"
read a
echo "Insert name"
read b

if i input username@email.com and John, the output should be
Code:
username1@email.com:Harry:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.net:Alex:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.edu:Nemo:149.0.3.4:1

I tried sed, but it only reads from a defined variable. Any help would be appreciated, thanks
 

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NAME

       mailto.conf - configuration file for cups email notifier

DESCRIPTION

       The mailto.conf file defines the local mail server and email notification preferences for CUPS.

       Each line in the file can be a configuration directive, a blank line, or a comment. Comment lines start with the # character.

DIRECTIVES

       Cc cc-address@domain.com
	    Specifies an additional recipient for all email notifications.

       From from-address@domain.com
	    Specifies the sender of email notifications.

       Sendmail sendmail command and options
	    Specifies  the  sendmail  command  to use when sending email notifications. Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the
	    mailto.conf file. If multiple lines are present, only the last one is used.

       SMTPServer servername
	    Specifies a SMTP server to send email notifications to. Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the	mailto.conf  file.
	    If multiple lines are present, only the last one is used.

       Subject subject-prefix
	    Specifies a prefix string for the subject line of an email notification.

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       http://localhost:631/help

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