Does anyone know how to write a sed command that will delete all lines except lines ending with a particular character - the character is the bar |

Thanks a lot for your help!

sed -ne '/|$/p' file

Thank you for the reply. The command didn't seem to alter the file. I entered:

sed -ne '/|$/p' test.txt

Is that correct?

Thanks again

that's correct!
make sure thare'e no spaces/tabs/etc AFTER the trailing pipe.

oh I just realized that. So now I have to get rid of all blank spaces after the |

There are some spaces that I want to keep within the line so I can't remove all spaces. So I tried this but it doesn't work:

sed -ne '/| *//p' test.txt

Any suggestion?

# this will get the lines trailing spaces AFTER the last pipe
sed -ne '/| *$//p' test.txt

#this will do the above AND remove the trailing spaces from the selected lines
sed -ne '/| *$/s/ *$//p' test.txt

i used the first one that you wrote - it worked perfectly!

Thank you