i need to use sed to remove an entire line containing a pattern stored in a variable say $var1
this var1 will be a URL and will therefore contain slashes
any help would be greatly appreciated
The pattern can be delimited by any character, the syntax is :
\cregexc
For example (with the character �)
sed '\�http://www.unix.com�d'
If the regex is store in the variable var, you can do (note \ must be doubled because it's inside ") :
sed "\\�${var}�d"
Jean-Pierre.