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Hoxygen232

02-05-2013 02:12 PM

bash - delete lines that starts with one particular lettere from a file

Hi,

What I want to do is:
I have a "file.txt" like this:

Code:

hi

mom

zzz

the

pasta

tomorrow

night

zorro

zheta

zing

I need to delete all words that starts with 'z', so after remval it will be:

Code:

hi

mom

the

pasta

tomorrow

night

so I need to delete from the same file which I read from, and there must not be empty lines after removal.

Is it possible?
thanks a lot

colucix

02-05-2013 02:17 PM

Maybe by means of something like this?

Code:

sed -i '/^z/d' file

Hoxygen232

02-05-2013 02:19 PM

great, it works perfect thanks

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