how de delete a ligne from a file

[Shawn Lower]

NoSpaze wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 10.06.2009, 16:35 +0200 schrieb Adel ESSAFI:
>> Hi list
>> Is there a method to delete a line from a file withoout editing it!
>> I have found how to do this with awk, but it is heavy!!
> 
> sed -i '/regex/d' file

Or by number:

sed -i '2d' file

In the above example, 2 is the line number to remove.

> regex is a regular expression. For example, deleting the lines that end
> with "goodbye...":
> 
> sed -i '/goodbye\.\.\.$/d' file
> 
> :)
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