On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Chris S wrote:
> what if i have other strings in a file other than "NOT NULL" that i want to
> get rid of? can i still get away with one command or do i have to use a
> separate command for each string?
> in my file i want to get rid of all lines beginning with:
> ;
> blank space
> .com
> <all characters>.ROOT-
> <all characters>.GTLD-
>
> thanks for any advice.
time for you to learn "sed". as for the above, you can use a compound
sed script:
sed '
/^;/d
/^ /d
/^.com/d
' filename
etc etc ...
this generates the new file on stdout, so you have to redirect that output
to a new file. more than this, it's time for you to buy the book.
rday
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