08-29-2005
How to delete a particular text without opening the file.
Hi,
Could someone tell me how to delete a particular text inside an existing file without opening the file?
e.g. I have a text file called mytext.txt which contains three lines of text below and I want to delete “ ;” and delete the second line “b ;” including the carriage return.
a ;
b ;
c ;
So I want the file to have the contents below:
a
c
Any help will be appreciated.
p.s. I can do this in vi by running “%s/ ;//g” and deleting the second line with dd but I want this done without opening the file.
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NAME
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ARGUMENTS
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