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Old 08-24-2007
MySQL Delete all occurence of a word in one shot
i have a file called file1

cat file1
i am namish
namish lives in India
India and namish both are good.

I want to delete all the occurences of namish in one shot,if i do it with sed i guess all the lines will be deleted containing the pattern.Suggest me any idea without AWK.

Thanks
Namish
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Old 08-24-2007
Code:
sed 's/namish//g' file1

# 3  
Old 08-24-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by robotronic
Code:
sed 's/namish//g' file1

Thanks for the reply.

If i do not want the space at the place of the deleted pattern,what is suggested.
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Old 08-24-2007
Code:
sed 's/ *namish *//g' file1

or

Code:
sed 's/^namish //g; s/ namish$//g; s/ namish / /g' file1

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Old 08-24-2007
Thanks robotronic!
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Old 08-24-2007
use vi editor and replace all occurances of namish with " "
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Old 08-24-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vishalzone2002
use vi editor and replace all occurances of namish with " "
and what if there are 1000 occurances of namish in it? Then in command mode:
Code:
:1,$s/namish//g

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