hey all,

i got a script to delete line by search for match. but i noticed that it deletes any other match as well. i mean;

got a website need to be find: pornotane.org, script is deleting the line has pornotane.org

but also deletes line containing hdportane.org


command is here: sed -i '' -e "/$domain/d" file


any help will be appreciated

whatever guys, i have solved it. telling for people may have same problem:

i am running freebsd and my sed command doesn't have a function for exact match (word boundary </>), i've installed gsed and solved it.

I think you need to provide a little more information for it to be useful to others. Your first post would seem flawed.

If we can assume that the domain variable has the string 'pornotane.org' in it I do not believe sed will delete a line not containing that string ie. 'hdportane.org'.
Would you mind explaining a little further the original problem?

I was also curious about the 3 sets of quotes?? Is that just a typo?

Lastly, the -e is not required for only a single entry or was this culled from a larger sed statement and perhaps the cause of the original issue?

first, no it's not related to -e and the command is the from time i was trying anything to handle problem. Don't even remember what -e parameter is doing.

second, it is working as following

more file1.txt | while read LINE
do
domainLine=$(echo $LINE | awk '{printf $2}')

for domain in $domainLine
do
# echo $domain
grep $domain file
# sed -i "/$domain/d" file
gsed -i "/\b$domain\b/d" file
done
done

Please use [code][/code] tags for your code snippets.

I would add that as you are parsing an entire file, without seeing its contents what could assume that both domains are listed in the file and hence why you were removing unwanted lines.
Remembering that a regex does not pick and choose what it matches and no addition of boundaries would assist in the issue.

Lastly, please remember to select he SOLVED option under thread tools if your solution has been found.

it is a bit hard to explain without writing down content of files. anyway, thank you for all your advices.