how to remove particular records from a file???

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I need to remove header(H) and trailer(T) from a file keeping other records as such.

The source file will look as below

I have to remove
H|20120203_000500|20120203_000500 and
T| 10111246
from the above file. Please let me know how to do...

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sed '/^[HT]/d'  file

Guru.

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sed -i '/^H|\|^T|/d' infile

--ahamed

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$ egrep -v "^H|^T" test.txt                                                                                                                        
D|373652879|34511433|0|0|0|0|0|40853|1336|e48999|OR|Save Original Line|
D|373652881|2698|0|0|0|0|0|40853|1336|e48999|OR|Save Original Line|
D|373652883|9589|0|0|0|0|0|40853|1336|e48999|OR|Save Original Line|
D|373652885|3427|0|0|0|0|0|40853|1336|e48999|OR|Save Original Line|
D|373652887|33146774|0|0|0|0|0|40853|1336|e48999|OR|Save Original Line|
D|373652889|33866498|0|0|0|0|0|40853|1336|e48999|OR|Save Original Line|
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When I tried the above command i got

Any idea why???

6

your sed is not supporting the -i option.

then you can redirect the output to new file.

sed '/^H|\|^T|/d' infile > outfile
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worked fine... thanks guruprasadpr