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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting by ID Post 40821 by oombera on Tuesday 23rd of September 2003 10:37:50 PM
Old 09-23-2003
I think I'm following what you're trying to do...

Try:
Code:
a=1
while read LINE
do
 echo $a "$LINE" >> tmp_00
 a=`expr $a + 1`
done < list.txt
mv tmp_00 list.txt

to put numbers at the beginning of each line and then use something like:

sed '/^4/d' < list.txt to delete the fourth "record"...
 

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