Command erase lines
 

How could I get rid of the lines in a file that contain a specific word ?

for instance directory:

/home/stuff: directory
/home/other: data
/home/down: empty


Cheers

Use the -v option to grep. Suppose you have a file called "pizza.toppings" containing a list of (what else?) pizza toppings, and you want to remove 'sausage' from the file, you just need to:

Thanks a lot Matir for the vegetarian pizza :D that's exactly what I needed!

I was trying something else but your method is much better



Cheers :)

sed would work as well, but I think grep is just a much more direct way to do things. :)

And can you tell how ready I am to go to lunch?

Enjoy your lunch Matir :p ! here it's more time for diner

Thanks again for helping