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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [S]: Script
Date: 31 May 1996 22:59:43 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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Reto Burkhalter (BORKI@zug.use.ch) wrote:
: 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
:
:
: %script <file> <entry> ; %script database foo -> deletes the
: first entry (line) in the database.
:
: Who can help me??
:
:
: Reto
:
how about
sed "/$2/d" $1 >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $1
specifically
sed /foo/d database >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ database
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....