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Old 01-29-2010
Delete a line in a file starting with - Perl one-liner
Hi

I need a perl onliner to delete a line in a file starting with few words.
Example

file.txt
----------
my name is don
I live in London
I am woking as engineer

I want to delete a line starting with 'I live in' using perl oneliner and in place edit with out temporary files

Thanks in advance
Ammu
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Old 01-29-2010
Code:
perl -i -nle 'print if !/I live in/' file.txt

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Old 01-31-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Code:
perl -i -nle 'print if !/I live in/' file.txt

and how about:
Code:
perl -i -nle 'print if !/^I live in\b/' file.txt

but Franklin52's solution would work well in most situations
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