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Old 09-29-2007, 03:52 PM   #1
kushalkoolwal
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Delete a line using sed

Hi,

I have a shell script say clean.sh. Now I want to delete all lines in a file called test.lst which starts with the word "initrd". How can I use sed command in my scripp clean.sh to achieve it?

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sed -i /^initrd/d test.lst
 
Old 09-29-2007, 07:25 PM   #3
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sed -i /^initrd/d test.lst

Thanks that worked!!!
 
  


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