Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:33:55 +0100 From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com> To: "bstitt@tsys.com" <bstitt@tsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need a good Unix script that.. Message-ID: <14989d6e0703140433t6fcdcccei9dc60b26bffc35bd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <OF41E635D9.5C37421A-ON8525729E.0035F7CA-8525729E.003C4080@tsys.com> References: <OF41E635D9.5C37421A-ON8525729E.0035F7CA-8525729E.003C4080@tsys.com>
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On 14/03/07, bstitt@tsys.com <bstitt@tsys.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to write a script to delete all line that include a certain > pattern in an output file. I sending information to one of our Security > people and they take this data and create a spreadsheet on the > information, I have a constant reoccurring lines within the output file > that they do not need. I'm trying to use the sed command to remove lines > that fits a certain pattern but it does not appear to remove anything. > > Any helpful ideas or any useful links to scripts. > You can use something like: cat yourfile | grep -v pattern >newfile If there are several patterns to be removed, use something like: cat yourfile | egrep -v "(pattern1|pattern2|pattern3|...)" >newfile HTH Christian
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