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# 1  
Old 05-22-2015
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Hi all !
Please see if you can help me. I've used sed comand (with success) to remove content from the file when some word is found. Example:

Into to the file (FILE.txt) I've:
Code:
/folder1/folder2/folder3/XYZ
/folder1/folder2/folder3/ABC
/folder1/folder2/folder3/ZZZ

So I search by ZZZ (zzz is my folder name) for example and I can exclude entire line with success.
Example:
Code:
sed --in-place '/'$folder'/d' FILE.txt


The problem now is when inside the FILE.txt I've similar paths. Example:
Code:
/folder1/folder2/folder3/ZZZ
/folder1/folder2/folder3/ZZZ_bb

How can I exclude just /folder1/folder2/folder3/ZZZ?
*The path /folder1/folder2/folder3/ZZZ_bb should remain intact.

I've tried without success, because another problem that I found is because the line start with "/".

Example (it works because the line does not start with "/":
Code:
FILE.txt = 
folder1/folder2/folder3/test
folder1/folder2/folder3/test_xy
folder=folder1/folder2/folder3/test

sed "s|\<"$folder"\>||g" FILE.txt




Some suggestion?

Tks !
Last edited by Don Cragun; 05-22-2015 at 05:36 PM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 05-22-2015
Hi,

The first thing to point out is that when working with directory structures or dates don't use the forward slash as the separator change your statement to use something like;

Code:
sed --in-place ';$folder;d' FILE.txt

The next thing is please use code tags when inputing code.

Regards

Gull
# 3  
Old 05-22-2015
you want to end with ZZZ then use an anchor $

Code:
folder='/ZZZ$'
sed -i ";$folder;d"

# 4  
Old 05-22-2015
Hi neutronscott !

Not worked. See:

Code:
cat FILE.txt
/folder1/folder2/folder3/ZZZ
/folder1/folder2/folder3/ZZZ_xy

folder='/ZZZ$'
sed -i ";$folder;d"
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unterminated address regex

sed -i ";$folder;d" FILE.txt
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unterminated address regex

Last edited by Don Cragun; 05-22-2015 at 05:37 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
# 5  
Old 05-23-2015
An address RE must be either /RE/ or \cREc
Code:
sed -i "\;$folder;d" FILE.txt

---------- Post updated 05-23-15 at 01:36 AM ---------- Previous update was 05-22-15 at 04:37 PM ----------

You can have as well
Code:
folder=ZZZ
sed -i '\;/'"$folder"'$;d' FILE.txt

This User Gave Thanks to MadeInGermany For This Post:
Tiago
# 6  
Old 05-25-2015
Hi MadeInGermany !

Worked 100%

Tks !
# 7  
Old 05-26-2015
What about grep command ...??
in-placed replacemne won't happened here , you need to redirect outpt to temp file and then moved to original file.

Code:
 grep -vwE "ZZZ$" filename
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