Need a good Unix script that..

[alex at schnarff.com]

Why not use Perl? It'd be as simple as:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

open(IN, "$ARGV[0]") || die "Can't open $ARGV[0]: $!\n";
while (<IN>) {
     print $_ unless ($_ =~ /<regular expression describing lines you 
don't want>/);
}
close IN;

Save this script as "filter.pl" (or whatever you want to call it), and 
then just run "perl filter.pl <original file> > <filtered file>", which 
will pipe out all the lines you do want to <filtered file>.

Alex Kirk

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to write a script to delete all line that include a certain
> pattern in an output file. I sending information to one of our Security
> people and they take this data and create a spreadsheet on the
> information, I have a constant reoccurring lines within the output file
> that they do not need. I'm trying to use the sed command to remove lines
> that fits a certain pattern but it does not appear to remove anything.
>
> Any helpful ideas or any useful links to scripts.
>
> Thanks so much..
>
> Bruce Stitt
> TSYS Hosting Services
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