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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting by ID Post 40820 by boyler on Tuesday 23rd of September 2003 10:14:22 PM
Old 09-23-2003
Deleting by ID

Need to delete records from a text file. Very new to this and am using pico. The only way i can think of doing this is to generate an ID for every record then tell it to delete that particular ID. First question is how if possible do i give each entry an ID number, the second is would this code work to delete an ID entry

sed '/.*ID.*/d' list.txt > list.txt

Any other suggestions on ways items can be deleted from a text file?

Thanks for your help
 

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RECSET(1)							   User Commands							 RECSET(1)

NAME
recset - manipulate fields in a recfile SYNOPSIS
recset [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Alter or delete fields in records. --no-external don't use external descriptors. --force alter the records even if violating record restrictions. --help print a help message and exit. --version show version and exit. Record selection options: -i, --case-insensitive make strings case-insensitive in selection expressions. -t, --type=TYPE operate on records of the specified type only. -e, --expression=EXPR selection expression. -q, --quick=STR select records with fields containing a string. -n, --number=NUM,... select specific records by position, with ranges. -R, --random=NUM select a given number of random records. Field selection options: -f, --fields=FIELDS comma-separated list of field names with optional subscripts. Actions: -s, --set=VALUE change the value of the selected fields. -a, --add=VALUE add the selected fields with the given value. -S, --set-add=VALUE change the value of the selected fields. If they don't exist then add a new field with that value. -r, --rename=NAME rename the selected fields to a given name. If an entire record set is selected then the field is renamed in the record descriptor as well. -d, --delete delete the selected fields. -c, --comment comment out the selected fields. AUTHOR
Written by Jose E. Marchesi. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-recutils@gnu.org GNU recutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012 Jose E. Marchesi. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for recset is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and recset programs are properly installed at your site, the command info recset should give you access to the complete manual. recset 1.4.93 January 2012 RECSET(1)
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