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Old 12-06-2005
Question delete a line based on first character of the line

Hi,

I need to delete all lines in a file which starts with "|" character. Can some one assist me?

Thanks
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Old 12-06-2005
Code:
 grep -v "^|" oldfile > newfile

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Old 12-06-2005
Thanks...That works
 
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