> -----Original Message----- > From: Rahul Garg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Deleting the contents of file:Help > > I want to search for a specific mailid in a file and if found > then delete that mailid from that file. Do you want to delete lines containing the mailid? Or just delete the text of the mailid? This will delete lines (like grep -v): perl -ne 'print unless /blahblah/' infile >outfile This will strip all occurences of the text, but leave the line: perl -pe 's/blahblah//g' infile >outfile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
