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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Need help with how to search a file for a variable string and delete that line Post 303031308 by newbie_01 on Monday 25th of February 2019 10:27:31 PM
Old 02-25-2019
Thanks Don, I feel so small looking at what's missing, I thought when I tried //, that's it so I change it to a # but never thought about the \.

--- Post updated at 10:22 PM ---

Hi RudiC,

I like the one-liner one but it gives me error as below:

Using
Code:
grep -vf<(sed -n 's/:.*$//; 1h;1!H; ${g;p}' list.err) list.all

Gives the following error:

Code:
sed: command garbled: s/:.*$//; 1h;1!H; ${g;p}
grep: illegal option -- f
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .

Using
Code:
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep -vf<(sed -n 's/:.*$//; 1h;1!H; ${g;p}' list.err) list.all

or
Code:
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep -vf<(/usr/xpg4/bin/sed -n 's/:.*$//; 1h;1!H; ${g;p}' list.err) list.all

Gives the following error:

Code:
sed: command garbled: s/:.*$//; 1h;1!H; ${g;p}

--- Post updated at 10:27 PM ---

Hi RudiC

FYI, the one-liner as expected does work on Linux :-) but on the Solaris one. Smilie
 

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