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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting copy, then delete lines in file with sed using a pattern Post 302498852 by Shell_Life on Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 04:20:28 PM
Old 02-22-2011
To copy lines starting with "ABC" into a new file:
Code:
egrep "^ABC" input_file > output_file

To delete lines starting with "ABC" into another file:
Code:
egrep -v "^ABC" input_file > output_file

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apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor

apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor(1)									      apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor(1)

NAME

       apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor - This application is part of ( apertium )

       This tool is part of the apertium machine translation architecture: http://apertium.org.

SYNOPSIS

       apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor data_dir translation_dir input_file output_file

DESCRIPTION

       apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor is the application responsible for preprocessing the training corpus for the lexical selector training.

OPTIONS

       This tool currently has no options.

FILES

       These are the kinds of files and directories used with this tool:

       data_dir the path to the linguistic data to use.

       translation_dir the translation direction to use.

       input_file contains a large corpus in raw format.

       output_file The file which gets the preprocessed corpus.

SEE ALSO

       apertium-gen-lextorbil(1),     apertium-gen-lextormono(1),     apertium-gen-lextor-eval(1),     apertium-gen-stopwords-lextor(1),     aper-
       tium-gen-wlist-lextor(1), apertium-gen-wlist-lextor-translation(1), apertium-lextor(1).

BUGS

       Lots of...lurking in the dark and waiting for you!

AUTHOR

       (c) 2005,2006 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante. All rights reserved.

								    2006-12-12				      apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor(1)
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