how to find literal in file and them delete that line

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 10/05/2010 04:38:25, Fbsd1 wrote:
> I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if
> found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from
> within a sh type of shell script.
> 
> Does anyone have a example they would share with me?

grep -v 'literal' < file > file.new

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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