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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Finding lines with a regular expression, replacing them with blank lines Post 302644763 by neutronscott on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 11:00:48 AM
Old 05-22-2012
if you make the pattern space the entire line, you can do it in 1 shot.

Code:
[mute@geek /proc]$ printf '%s\n' foo bar baz | sed 's/ar//'    #we want to find "ar"
foo
b
baz
[mute@geek /proc]$ printf '%s\n' foo bar baz | sed '/ar/d'     #delete the line
foo
baz
[mute@geek /proc]$ printf '%s\n' foo bar baz | sed 's/.*ar.*//'    #replace with nothing (blank)
foo
 
baz

 

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NAME
Devel::Dwarn - return Dwarn @return_value SYNOPSIS
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