remove special character from a textfile

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Can any one plse help me writing shell script to removing some special character pattern (like / > -------, / > / > ------- etc....as shown below) from the text file ASAP.

/ >  -------
<tag-normalization tag-name="EXECSERVPRODUCT" read-only="false" part="body">
                                <mapping-condition/>
                                <mapping-expression>
                                        <expression value="$6061"/>
                                </mapping-expression>
                        </tag-normalization>
/ > / >  -------
<tag-normalization tag-name="STARTTIME" read-only="false" part="body">
                                <mapping-condition/>
                                <mapping-expression>
                                        <expression value="$6062"/>
                                </mapping-expression>
                        </tag-normalization>
/ > / >  -------
<tag-normalization tag-name="ENDTIME" read-only="false" part="body">
                                <mapping-condition/>
                                <mapping-expression>
                                        <expression value="$6063"/>
                                </mapping-expression>
                        </tag-normalization>
/ > / >  -------
2 
#! /bin/ksh
grep -v "/ >" c.txt >> new.txt
3

Thanx Amit for your quick reply

4

Ouput in stdout,

$sed  '/\/ > -\+/d' filename

The input file will be overwritten in the below solution.

$ sed  -i.bak '/\/ > -\+/d' a
$ cat a
<tag-normalization tag-name="EXECSERVPRODUCT" read-only="false" part="body">
<mapping-condition/>
<mapping-expression>
<expression value="$6061"/>
</mapping-expression>
</tag-normalization>
<tag-normalization tag-name="STARTTIME" read-only="false" part="body">
<mapping-condition/>
<mapping-expression>
<expression value="$6062"/>
</mapping-expression>
</tag-normalization>
<tag-normalization tag-name="ENDTIME" read-only="false" part="body">
<mapping-condition/>
<mapping-expression>
<expression value="$6063"/>
</mapping-expression>
</tag-normalization>