Re: Deleting a line from a file

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Hi!

The original mail is off-topic as it has nothing to do wotj the Linux
kernel development as such, but:

On Mit, 2014-05-14 at 19:58 +0530, Saket Sinha wrote:
[...]
>     I have a file that has entries for different absolute path on
> separate lines. eg:
> /opt/new1
> /opt/new2
> 
> I need to delete an entry from this file for a given path, for which I
> am using sed.
> 
> sed -i 's#^/opt/new1.*$##g' file_entries.txt
> 
> However this is leaving blank line in between, which I don't want.
> 
> Can someone help me to do this without leaving blank lines in between.

sed -i 's#^/opt/new1.*$#d' file_entries.txt

should do it ....

	Bernd
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