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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search for a line, delete a string in it Post 302476459 by codecaine on Wednesday 1st of December 2010 05:39:35 PM
Old 12-01-2010
[QUOTE=skunky;302476449]while helpful, it's not what i'%

---------- Post updated at 05:39 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:25 PM ----------

Here is the code revised to suit your needs. It only removes lines that have exactly coat[tab]hat
Code:
awk -F \; ' 
{ 
	for(x=1; x <= NF; x++){
		if(index($x,"coat\that") == 0 )
			if(x == NF)
				printf("%s\n",  $x); 
			else
				printf("%s;", $x);
	} 
} ' filename.txt

Last edited by codecaine; 12-01-2010 at 06:32 PM..
 

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