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Old 05-07-2008
sed error - using reserved letters
Hi All,

below is my data file
file.txt
Code:
0     ServerA  LAN1    AAA     IT01    04/30/2008  09:16:26
               (no records)  
0     ServerB  LAN1    AAA     IT02    04/30/2008  09:16:26
0     ServerA  LAN1    AAA     IT01    04/30/2008  11:11:26
0     ServerB  LAN1    AAA     IT02    04/30/2008  11:11:26
               (no records) 
0     ServerA  LAN1    AAA     IT01    04/29/2008  12:16:26
0     ServerB  LAN1    AAA     IT02    04/30/2008  12:16:26

i tried to replace with null for the above string (no records) using sed, received following error
Code:
# sed "s/(*\)//g" file.txt
sed: command garbled: s/(*\)//g

Any one can help

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 05-07-2008
Why not just grep -v 'no records' file.txt > newfile.txt?
# 3  
Old 05-07-2008
sed 's/(.*)//g' file.txt

--penchal
# 4  
Old 05-07-2008
hi anni,
characters inside (xxxx) are variables. so no point to grep

hi penchal,
Thanks it works fine,

is there any way to remove the whole line instead of replacing null
# 5  
Old 05-07-2008
Code:
sed '/(.*)/d' file.txt

Or:

Code:
grep -v '(.*)' file.txt

(grep understands regexp too).
# 6  
Old 05-07-2008
Hi Karthik,

sed '/(.*)/d' file.txt


--penchal
# 7  
Old 05-07-2008
hey
thanks to all
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