On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 6:33 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09/03/2015 09:26 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> On 09/03/2015 08:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 07:56:33 -0600, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Here is /var/lib/portage/world >>> >>> This contains quite a lot of libraries. As a rule of thumb, you should >>> rarely have libraries in world as you don't use them - the software you >>> have in world uses them. You can quickly clean them out with >>> >>> sed -i /libs\//d /var/lib/portage/world >> >> After running above I get: >> sed: -e expression #1, char 7: unknown command: `/' >> >> Shouldn't it be: >> sed -i /libs\/d /var/lib/portage/world
Enclosing the 'sed' commands in single quotes would do it: sed -i '/libs\//d' /var/lib/portage/world
