delete lines containing a specific word in afile

sireesha9 · February 20, 2009, 6:26am

Hi,

Please suggest how to write a shell script which delets all the lines containing the word unix in the files supplied as argument in the shell.

Whiteboard · February 20, 2009, 6:39am

grep -v keyword

Shahul · February 20, 2009, 11:00pm

Hi,

sed '/UNIX/d' inputfile > output

or

if you are using variable ...then
sed -e '/'$var'/d' inputfile > output

Thanks
Sha

Yogesh_Sawant · February 22, 2009, 11:07pm

better yet, add word boundaries:

grep -v "\<unix\>" filename

this takes care of words such as unixed and unix1

sireesha9 · February 23, 2009, 5:07am

Thank you all for the suggestions.