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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Re: Deleting lines from big file. Post 302499962 by shahhe on Friday 25th of February 2011 10:54:45 PM
Old 02-25-2011
You have to redirect input to the command. Try following:

$ cat test.txt
Code:
/2010|1|2842|C|9999999900099|0|083|484.09|879|4004.59|1363|6277.43|1118|5020.95
/2010|2|2842|C|9999999900099|0|1083|184.49|889|0|0|0|0|0
/2010|3|2842|C|9999999900099|0|103|428.99|899|4004.59|1363|6277.43|1118|5020.95
/2010|9|842|F|9999999900099|0|183|14.41|19|0|0|0|0|0

Code:
$ sed -e '/|0|0|0|0|0/d' < test.txt
/2010|1|2842|C|9999999900099|0|083|484.09|879|4004.59|1363|6277.43|1118|5020.95
/2010|3|2842|C|9999999900099|0|103|428.99|899|4004.59|1363|6277.43|1118|5020.95

Last edited by Franklin52; 02-26-2011 at 07:39 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
 

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