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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!iol!gate.ohs.ie!usenet From: steveo@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [S]: Script Date: 2 Jun 1996 16:59:33 GMT Organization: Steve O'Hara-Smith Lines: 31 Sender: root@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Message-ID: <4osh9l$st4@gate.ohs.ie> References: <xorMtMD4F99aRz1@borki.zug.use.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-388.dublin.iol.ie X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 In article <xorMtMD4F99aRz1@borki.zug.use.ch>, BORKI@zug.use.ch (Reto Burkhalter) writes: >Hy Everyone... > > >I'm looling for a shell script or command line syntax in >order to delete lines in a file with a specific content. >I want to delete member entries in a database without having >to invoke an editor. > >e.g. database file > >foo xxyy >bar yyzz >sec zzaa > Try grep -v foo database > database.new mv database.new database Or even mv database database.bak grep -v foo database.bak > database -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve O'Hara-Smith E-Mail: steveo@iol.ie