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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete line in text file Post 82338 by Berserk on Wednesday 31st of August 2005 03:09:14 AM
Old 08-31-2005
sorry about that, wont happen again.

so if I use:

sed -e '/$keyword/d' file.txt

would that delete a user entered $keyword from a text file?
 

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PYDOC2.7(1)                                                   General Commands Manual                                                  PYDOC2.7(1)

NAME
pydoc2.7 - the Python documentation tool SYNOPSIS
pydoc2.7 name pydoc2.7 -k keyword pydoc2.7 -p port pydoc2.7 -g pydoc2.7 -w module [...] DESCRIPTION
pydoc2.7 name Show text documentation on something. name may be the name of a Python keyword, topic, function, module, or package, or a dotted reference to a class or function within a module or module in a package. If name contains a '/', it is used as the path to a Python source file to document. If name is 'keywords', 'topics', or 'modules', a listing of these things is displayed. pydoc2.7 -k keyword Search for a keyword in the synopsis lines of all available modules. pydoc2.7 -p port Start an HTTP server on the given port on the local machine. pydoc2.7 -g Pop up a graphical interface for finding and serving documentation. pydoc2.7 -w name [...] Write out the HTML documentation for a module to a file in the current directory. If name contains a '/', it is treated as a filename; if it names a directory, documentation is written for all the contents. AUTHOR
Moshe Zadka, based on "pydoc --help" PYDOC2.7(1)
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