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# 1  
Old 12-30-2006
Delete lines ending in "_;" using sed
I could really use some help with this issue. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sed command to delete only the lines from my file that end with _;
I'm also supposed to carry the leading 'c' down to the next line. The commands I've tried either delete everything or nothing at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've tried several variations of this command to get the delete.
sed -e /_;/d'

(string \\;\) cbase_size_;
(string \\;\) bse;
(string \\;\) cflavor_;
(string \\;\) flv;

Would become....

(string \\;\) cbse;
(string \\;\) cflv;
# 2  
Old 12-30-2006
This seems to work, you forgot the first "'".

sed -e '/_;/d' -e 's/) \(.*\)/ c\1/' file

Kent
# 3  
Old 12-30-2006
How about this ? Not tested though.

Code:
sed -n -e "s/^\(.*\) \([^_]*;\)$/\1 c\2/p"

# 4  
Old 12-30-2006
Vino : i've test your sed command and it works very well
# 5  
Old 12-30-2006
Thanks for your help everyone!
# 6  
Old 12-31-2006
... another way with grep:

Code:
$  cat file.txt    

(string \\;\) cbase_size_;
(string \\;\) bse;
(string \\;\) cflavor_;
(string \\;\) flv;

$  grep -v _.$ file.txt

(string \\;\) bse;
(string \\;\) flv;
$

# 7  
Old 01-02-2007
Edit: Nevermind, it works now.
Last edited by turbulence; 01-02-2007 at 12:31 PM..
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