$# some text
$$ some text
$@ some text
$$. some text
Mg1 some text
Mg2 some text
.
.
.
Mg10 some text
The above 10 lines are to be extracted except the lines starting from $#,$$.,...
$# some text
$$ some text
$@ some text
$$. some text
Mg1 some text
Mg2 some text
.
.
.
Mg10 some text
The above 10 lines are to be extracted except the lines starting from $#,$$.,...
DELETED
can some 1 explain the above line
cat + perl + sed = WOW !!!
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perl -wln -e 'print if (!/^\$/ and /^MG/)' FILE.txt
With perl coming into picture, sed/grep/awk should make way for it.
Thanks and Regards,
Gaurav.
what about the grep command ?
grep "^Mg" filename
grep -v "^\$" filename
I didnt notice the post says "Perl help for file handling"