On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Fosiul Alam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jan E. wrote in post #1072045:
>
>>
>> You cannot delete a line from a file. But you can overwrite the file and
>> skip this line.
>>
>
> Hi thanks
> but sorry for late reply.
> but how do you skip the line ???
> what would be the steps
> thanks

If you really only need to delete a single line from a file sed is
probably the easiest choice:

without backup
$ sed -i '/^john/ d' your_file

with backup
$ sed -i.bak '/^john/ d' your_file

Kind regards

robert

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