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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need a script or one-liner to purge lines from a file. Post 302461910 by ctsgnb on Tuesday 12th of October 2010 05:19:40 PM
Old 10-12-2010
is there one in /usr/ucb/grep ? or give a try with egrep ?

Last edited by ctsgnb; 10-12-2010 at 06:25 PM..
 

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