dear all,
a particular word which occures at many places in a large file is to be deleted.
Pl help.
TIA
sunil

cat filename | sed 's/word//g' > newfile

Cheers

Sathyaram

Thanks a lot, it worked.

Sorry, the script will delete all occurences of the word, even if it is a part of another word ... to delete only the word, you can do

cat filename | sed 's/ word /g;s/ word././g'

If you have any other format the word will occur, include them also in the above script ...

There could be other ways also ...

cheers

Sathyaram

i have a file by name test, which contains words like raju, raju12, raju123.
when i run this command

# cat test |sed 's/raju/g;s/raju././g' >test1

the output is
sed: command garbled: s/raju/g;s/raju././g

I am using solaris-8.

Sorry, I missed a '/' ...

It should have been


cat filename | sed 's/ word / /g;s/ word././g'

In the command :

s/word1/word2/g

s - means search for a string
word1 - is the search string
word2 - is the replace with string
g - indicates, do replacement of word1 with word2 globally

A semi-colon( is used to a separator between two command within sed ...

HTH

Sathyaram

Dear sir,
I have the following file.
#cat file
one farmer had
four sons
their names are
raju
raju1
raju2
raju3
raju was a good boy.
rest of raju were even good.
#
Now my requirement is only the word raju is tobe deleted from this file
Pl help
regards
sunil

the following remove any lines with zero or more spaces followed by raju followed by zero or more spaces

sed -e "s/^[ ]*raju[ ]*$//g"

if you want to get rid of the empty lines it leaves:

sed -e "s/^[ ]*raju[ ]*$//g" -e "/^$/d"


HTH
/Lennart