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How would I go about making this an automatic script that I could leave. So I just run the script and it automatically sleeps for 10 mins then compares that 10 min file to the last one, basically so...

cheers vino, thanks for your help.

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?

Hi,
How do I go about deleting a line in a text file. I have used grep to find a particlular word, now how do I delete the line?

so far I got:

grep -i $keyword file.txt

no too sure what you mean with the $(1) and $(2) variables, sorry to be a n00b but could you explain it a bit more? How do I use the two lists of files?

Sup,
I am trying to write a script that will check to see if any files have been deleted or created in a directory within a space of time (say 10 - 20 mins). I haven't used the comm or cmp commands...