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Hi everyone,

I have text files that I want to delete lines from. I have searched through this forum for quite some time and found examples of both awk and sed. Unfortunately, I was not able to successfully do what I want. Well to some extent. I did manage to delete the first 15 lines from each of the text files, since all the text files will have the same first 15 lines.

So, I have a text file that looks like this:

Id First Name Last Name
--- ---------- ---------
1 Mary Jane
2 Joe Blowe

2 record(s) selected.

Return Status = 0

Notice the lines in bold....every text file will have this at the end. This file will be emailed and the recepients won't have a clue to what those two lines mean, so I would like to remove them. Any suggestions? THANKS!

This should do the job:

Code:

awk '/record(s) selected.$/{exit}1' file

Regards

Hmm..that did not seem to have any results...but thanks anyways. What I did is:

awk 'FNR>15' myfile |grep -v -e "record(s) selected." -e "Return Status" > mynewfile



Don't know if that is the wrong way of doing it. I am sure you experienced folks will have a better way of doing it, but alas, it accomplished what I wanted.

Thanks again!!

Oops, forgot some quotes:

Code:

awk '/record\(s\) selected.$/{exit}1' file

Regards

Awesome, it worked! Don't you just love it how a single slash can make a difference?

Love it? It can drive you crazy sometimes...