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Emergency grep/delete trouble!!!

Hi everyone, thank you so much for reading.

I built a user reference page from /etc/password for a class project. Now I need two shell scripts: 1) Add names to the reference page 2) Delete names from the reference page. I know grep -v is involved somehow and some piping but I am super stuck.

Please help, Thank you.

-JSMPDX
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