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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to delete a particular text without opening the file. Post 82121 by vino on Monday 29th of August 2005 05:57:58 AM
Old 08-29-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by stevefox
Thanks Nir!

That command did delete the second line but it still contained " ;" for lines one and three.

I added an extra command to get rid of the " ;" for lines one and two as well.

sed -e '/b ;/d' mytext.txt | sed -e 's/ ;//' > mytext.txt.new


Thanks for your help.

Cheers
Steve
Avoid using sed twice. Instead give two different scripts with one sed.

Give it as

Code:
sed -e "s/;$//g" -e "/b/d" mytext.txt > mytext.txt.new

vino
 

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policy.py

POLICY.PY(5)							  [FIXME: manual]						      POLICY.PY(5)

NAME

       policy.py_ - zorp(8) policy file.

DESCRIPTION

       The policy.py file is a Python module containing the zone and service definitions and other policy related settings used by zorp(8). Empty
       lines and lines beginning with '#' are comments and are ignored.

       The policy.py file is generated automatically by ZMC, the Zorp Management Console, or it can be edited manually.

       IMPORTANT: Do not edit manually a file generated by ZMC, because the manual changes will not be retained by ZMC and will be lost when
       re-generating the file.

FILES

       The default location of policy.py is /etc/zorp/policy.py.

SEE ALSO

       For further information on policy.py refer to the following sources:

       A tutorial on manually editing the policy.py file can be found at http://www.balabit.com/network-security/zorp-gateway/gpl/tutorial/[1].

       Additional information can also be found in the Zorp Administrator's Guide, the Zorp Reference Guide, and in the various tutorials
       available at the BalaBit Documentation Page at http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/[2].

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by the BalaBit Documentation Team <documentation@balabit.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006 BalaBit IT Security Ltd. All rights reserved. For more information about the legal status of this document please read:
       http://www.balabit.com/products/zorp/docs/legal_notice.bbq

NOTES

	1. http://www.balabit.com/network-security/zorp-gateway/gpl/tutorial/
	   http://www.balabit.com/network-security/zorp-gateway/gpl/tutorial/

	2. http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/
	   http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/

[FIXME: source] 						    03/06/2012							      POLICY.PY(5)
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