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

Hoxygen232 · 02-05-2013, 02:12 PM

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