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No, I do not see the -E option available in AIX for sed.

I have attached part of the sed man page.

Thanks for the replies drysdalk and rudic.

drysdalk - I was able to achieve what I wanted from the example of your code!, thanks!
sed -e "/^cat /d" -e "/ cat$/d" -e "/ cat /d"


rudic - Sadly...

Sorry, I was not meaning to double post, I though it would be better to have thread in 'Shell Programming and Scripting ' then here, "programming" So I was going to delete this thread.
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sed is not applying /d "delete line" option when I also include match word options \< and \>

examples...
echo cat | sed '/\<cat\>/d'

will return cat for some reason

echo cat | sed...

So I'm on an AIX machine.

And sed is not applying /d "delete line" option when I also include match word options \< and \>

examples...
echo cat | sed '/\<cat\>/d'will return cat for some...