Re: search for string then deleting a line

[Steve Grazzini]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:32:32AM -0500, Distribution Lists wrote:
> Can someone give me a clue
> 
> I want to search through a file for a given string, when the string is
> found then delete the whole line. For example

There's a nice FAQ on this

    % perldoc -q 'change one line'

> test.user: cd9p06
> 
> search for "test.user", then delete "test.user: cd9p06"

I'd usually use something like this:

    local ($^I, @ARGV) = ('', $filename);
    while (<>) {
        print unless /test\.user/;
    }

Or just do it from the command-line

    % perl -ni -e 'print unless /test\.user/'

-- 
Steve

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