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Old 12-15-2016
Remove lines matching a substring in a specific column
Dear group,

I have following input text file:

Code:
Brit  2016  11  18  12  00  10  1.485,00    EUR
Brit  2016  11  18  12  00  10  142,64      EUR
Brit  2016  11  18  12  00  10  19,80       EUR
Brit  2016  11  18  12  00  10  545,00      EUR
Brit  2016  11  18  12  00  10  6.450,00    EUR
ABrit  2016  11  18  12  00  10  7.150,00    EUR

I want to remove those lines who match $1=Brit and $8 doesn't contain a dot ('.')!

awk or sed is just find.

Thank you for your kind support
# 2  
Old 12-15-2016
Use code tags for code please.

Code:
awk '($1 == "Brit") && !($8 ~ /[.]/) { next } 1' inputfile > outputfile

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# 3  
Old 12-15-2016
Slightly shorter:
Code:
awk '($1 != "Brit") || ($8 ~ /[.]/)' file

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# 4  
Old 12-15-2016
yes indeed!

Thank you for your prompt help. It did work.
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