search and delete the lines in a file

pmreddy · April 21, 2012, 1:27pm

HI group members

I am new in unix

I want to search # symbol in a file.
if found need to delete the entire row in the file.
need to move the actual data(with out # symbol data) to another file.

Thanks

bartus11 · April 21, 2012, 1:51pm

awk '!/#/' infile > outfile

chapeupreto · April 21, 2012, 3:10pm

a few more ways:

sed '/#/d' infile.txt > newfile.txt

sed -n '/#/!p' infile.txt > newfile.txt

grep -v '#' infile.txt > newfile.txt