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Old 04-02-2013
Delete lines based on Rules
Hi My requirement is very simple .


I juts need to delte some lines from a file.


here comes theactual scenario

I have some data in file like say

Code:
 
srinivasa prabhu kumar antony 
srinivas king prabhu antony 
srinivas prabhu king yar venkata 
venkata kingson srinivas prabhu 
prabhu srinivas prabhu kingson


I want to delete the lines which contain both the words srinivas and prabhu.


please help

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Mod Comment edit by bakunin: edited the title to make it better searchable. In general (and in sight of your many typos) you might consider exerting as much effort into writing your posts as you perhaps want us to show in answering them
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