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Old 09-11-2008
Delete lines at several places in a file with script
Hi,

I am a newbie to shell scripting, and I have a file which quite large which I would like to delete lines at certain places. I want to search for a keyword which is recurring in the file. When matched I would like to delete the line. And when the file was so huge I thought I ought to learn shell scripting to perform this for me. Anyone who can help me out?
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Old 09-11-2008
Use grep with the -v option. Read the manpage of grep and try to find out how it works.

Regards
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Old 09-11-2008
suppose your keyword is deleteme
Code:
sed '/deleteme/d' oldfile > newfile

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Old 09-11-2008
Thanks a lot..
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