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# 8  
Old 10-15-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
How did you add them?
Code:
echo "$channel_remove" << "channels.txt"

won't work, no way!
Code:
 sed -E "s/$channel_remove//g"

# 9  
Old 01-19-2017
Surely to remove a channel, you need to

Code:
grep -v "$channel_remove" channels.txt > channels.NEW
mv channels.NEW channels.txt


ps - just noticed the sed command that Demas had posted which will answer this query too.
# 10  
Old 01-24-2017
Take note of the last line, done .
Something is missing, for example...
Code:
while true
do
        lots of code here
done        #Your line 48 as 49 does not technically exist.

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