[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> If you need to replace the file, it is best to write to a temporary
>> file and use e.g. 'mv mynewfile myfile' when you are done.
>
> Check out the newish sed option --in-place. It does what you want.
>
> $ sed --in-place $SEDCO
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> $ sed -e '5d' -e '/FOO/d' -e '5,7d' myfile > mynewfile
>
> Note that redirecting output to an input file is not recommended (you
> might end up truncating the file, for example).
You almost certainly would.
> If you need to replace the file, it is best to write to a tem
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems like there should be a way to delete the first match in pure
> sed, but I didn't figure it out in the few seconds testing I did.
sed '/foo/{x;/^$/d;}'
paul
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Eka1618 wrote:
I am currently trying to figure out how to remove a specific line in a file.
So far I've only been able to come up with Ideas such as removing blank
lines, duplicate lines, or a number of line that are one right after
another. I think that I should be using the commands grep
I am currently trying to figure out how to remove a specific line in a file.
So far I've only been able to come up with Ideas such as removing blank
lines, duplicate lines, or a number of line that are one right after
another. I think that I should be using the commands grep, cat, and rm
