[ILUG] Filtering a file.

[David Neary]

David Neary wrote:
> Aherne Peter-pahern02 wrote:
> > What I want to do is get any line starting with /XXX/ CE and remove
> > that line and the following one. I could just write a script for this
> > but I though one of you guys could come up with something a little 
> > more elegant.
> 
> OK - this may not work, but the idea is sound enough.
> 
> sed '/^\/XXX\/ CE/{d;d}' filename

The proper way to do it is actually like this...
sed '/^\/XXX\/ CE/{
d
d
}' filename

Sed commands should be on separate lines, and the trailing }
needs to be on a line of it's own. Who knew!
This would also work, I think...

sed -n '/^\/XXX\/ CE/{
n
n
}
/^\/XXX\/ CE/! p' filename

Sorry for the earlier misinformation.

Dave.

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