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Old 05-27-2010
Question USING sed to delete a line
Please let me know wat would be sed command to delete any partcular line from a file and also moving lines below it to up.
ie wen line #9 is deleted data in line #10 should move to #9 and so on.
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Old 05-27-2010
If you made a little search in the forum, you would get the answer...Smilie

Code:
echo "1
2
3
4
5" | sed '2d'

This deletes line two.
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Old 05-27-2010
Thanks for the help......!!!! Smilie

I tried for searching but got all based on some string search, didnt get any with line no...!!! Smilie
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