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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete lines based on line number Post 302491708 by novice_man on Friday 28th of January 2011 05:23:13 AM
Old 01-28-2011
Delete lines based on line number

I have a file with ~200K lines, I need to delete 4K lines in it. There is no range.
I do have the line numbers of the lines which I want to be deleted.

I did tried using

Code:
> cat del.lines
sed '510d;12d;219d;......;3999d' file

> source del.lines
Word too long.

I even tried pasting the line in shell, it didn't allow, the number of characters in my file in the single line is - 16993.

Thanks for any help.
 

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GREP(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   GREP(1)

NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ] DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output. The options are -c Print only a count of matching lines. -h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines. -i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre- tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form. -l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines. -L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l. -n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file. -s Produce no output, but return status. -v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern. Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name argument.) Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in single quotes '...'. SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c SEE ALSO
ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6) DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs. GREP(1)
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