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Old 11-29-04, 18:55
redian redian is offline
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Deleting a line from a file
Hi - i am a beginner in unix. Is there a way to delete a line from a file. For example i want to delete a line which has the the word john in it
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Old 11-29-04, 19:41
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http://www.pement.org/sed/sed1line.txt

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# print only lines which do NOT match regexp (emulates "grep -v")
sed -n '/regexp/!p' # method 1, corresponds to above
sed '/regexp/d' # method 2, simpler syntax
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