pe <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Adel ESSAFI <<a href="mailto:adelessafi@gmail.com">adelessafi@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr">Hi list Is there a method to delete a line from a file withoout editing it! </div></blockquote><div> you can use perl perl -p -i -e `s/Line in file you want to remove//' filename but to remove a line you will always edit it. Just not through a typical editor.... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr"> I have found how to do this with awk, but it is heavy!! Thanks in advance Adel -- <a href="http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/</a> -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address BP 108, Bureau de poste Tunis republique 1001 Tunis Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 fax: +216 71 391 166 </div> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </blockquote></div> -- A grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says "Hey, we have a drink named after you." And the grasshopper says "Really, You have a drink named Murray?"