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Old 02-21-2011
Deleting shorter lines from data file
Hello,
I have the following data file structure:
Code:
1234 text
2345 text
3456 text text text
4567 text text text
5678 text text text
6789 text text text

I simply want to delete all of the lines that only have one text column (i.e. the first two lines in this case). The output would be:
Code:
3456 text text text
4567 text text text
5678 text text text
6789 text text text

Any ideas? Thanks so much.
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-21-2011 at 03:00 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
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Old 02-21-2011
through awk..
Code:
awk 'NF>2' inputfile > outfile

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