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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Removing PATTERN from txt without removing lines and general text formatting Post 302918505 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 23rd of September 2014 06:46:34 PM
Old 09-23-2014
The obvious simple solution is:
Code:
sed 's/ -- //' file.txt > newfile.txt

Is there some reason why your grep command was appending to newfile.txt instead of overwriting it?
 

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