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In this article of sed tutorial series, we are going to see how to delete or remove a particular line or a
particular pattern from a file using the sed command.
Let us consider a file with the sample contents as below:
$ cat file
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1. Delete the 1st line or the header line:
$ sed '1d' file
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d command is to delete a line. 1d means to delete the first line.

The above command will show the file content by deleting the first line. However, the source file
remains unchanged. To update the original file itself with this deletion or to make the changes
permanently in the source file, use the -i option. The same is applicable for all the other examples.
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sed -i '1d' file

Note: -i option in sed is available only if it is GNU sed. If not GNU, re-direct the sed output to a file,
and rename the output file to the original file.
2. Delete a particular line, 3rd line in this case:
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$ sed '3d' file

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3. Delete the last line or the trailer line of the file:

$ sed '$d' file
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$ indicates the last line.

4. Delete a range of lines, from 2nd line till 4th line:
$ sed '2,4d' file
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5. Delete lines other than the specified range, line other than 2nd till 4th here:
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$ sed '2,4!d' file

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6. Delete the first line AND the last line of a file, i.e, the header and trailer line of a file.
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$ sed '1d;$d' file
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Multiple conditions are separated using the ';' operator. Similarly, say to delete 2nd and 4th line,
you can use: '2d;3d'.
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7. Delete all lines beginning with a particular character, 'L' in this case:
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$ sed '/^L/d' file

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8. Delete all lines ending with a particular character, 'x' in this case:
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9. Delete all lines ending with either x or X, i.e case-insensitive delete:

$ sed '/[xX]$/d' file
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[xX] indicates either 'x' or 'X'. So, this will delete all lines ending with either small 'x' or capital 'X'.
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$ sed '/^$/d' file

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'^$' indicates lines containing nothing and hence the empty lines get deleted. However, this wont
delete lines containing only some blank spaces.
11. Delete all lines which are empty or which contains just some blank spaces:
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$ sed '/^ *$/d' file

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'*' indicates 0 or more occurrences of the previous character. '^ *$' indicates a line containing
zero or more spaces. Hence, this will delete all lines which are either empty or lines with only some
blank spaces.
12. Delete all lines which are entirely in capital letters:
$ sed '/^[A-Z]*$/d' file
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[A-Z] indicates any character matching the alphabets in capital.
13. Delete the lines containing the pattern 'Unix'.
$ sed '/Unix/d' file
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The pattern is specified within a pair of slashes.
14. Delete the lines NOT containing the pattern 'Unix':
$ sed '/Unix/!d' file
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15. Delete the lines containing the pattern 'Unix' OR 'Linux':
$ sed '/Unix\|Linux/d' file
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The OR condition is specified using the | operator. In order not to get the pipe(|) interpreted as a
literal, it is escaped using a backslash.
16. Delete the lines starting from the 1st line till encountering the pattern 'Linux':
$ sed '1,/Linux/d' file
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Earlier, we saw how to delete a range of lines. Range can be in many combinations: Line ranges,
pattern ranges, line and pattern, pattern and line.
17. Delete the lines starting from the pattern 'Linux' till the last line:
$ sed '/Linux/,$d' file
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18. Delete the last line ONLY if it contains the pattern 'AIX':
$ sed '${/AIX/d;}' file
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$ is for the last line. To delete a particular line only if it contains the pattern AIX, put the line
number in place of the $. This is how we can implement the 'if' condition in sed.
19. Delete the last line ONLY if it contains either the pattern 'AIX' or 'HPUX':
$ sed '${/AIX\|HPUX/d;}' file
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20. Delete the lines containing the pattern 'Solaris' only if it is present in the lines from 1 to
4.
$ sed '1,4{/Solaris/d;}' file
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This will only delete the lines containing the pattern Solaris only if it is in the 1st four lines,
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nowhere else.
21. Delete the line containing the pattern 'Unix' and also the next line:
$ sed '/Unix/{N;d;}' file
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N command reads the next line in the pattern space. d deletes the entire pattern space which
contains the current and the next line.
22. Delete only the next line containing the pattern 'Unix', not the very line:
$ sed '/Unix/{N;s/\n.*//;}' file
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Using the substitution command s, we delete from the newline character till the end, which
effective deletes the next line after the line containing the pattern Unix.
23. Delete the line containing the pattern 'Linux', also the line before the pattern:
$ sed -n '/Linux/{s/.*//;x;d;};x;p;${x;p;}' file | sed '/^$/d'
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A little tricky ones. In order to delete the line prior to the pattern,we store every line in a buffer
called as hold space. Whenever the pattern matches, we delete the content present in both, the
pattern space which contains the current line, the hold space which contains the previous line.
Let me explain this command: 'x;p;' ; This gets executed for every line. x exchanges the content of
pattern space with hold space. p prints the pattern space. As a result, every time, the current line
goes to hold space, and the previous line comes to pattern space and gets printed. When the
pattern /Linux/ matches, we empty(s/.*//) the pattern space, and exchange(x) with the hold space(as
a result of which the hold space becomes empty) and delete(d) the pattern space which contains the
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previous line. And hence, the current and the previous line gets deleted on encountering the pattern
Linux. The ${x;p;} is to print the last line which will remain in the hold space if left.
The second part of sed is to remove the empty lines created by the first sed command.
24. Delete only the line prior to the line containing the pattern 'Linux', not the very line:
$ sed -n '/Linux/{x;d;};1h;1!{x;p;};${x;p;}' file
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This is almost same as the last one with few changes. On encountering the pattern /Linux/, we
exchange(x) and delete(d). As a result of exchange, the current line remains in hold space, and the
previous line which came into pattern space got deleted.
1h;1!{x;p;} - 1h is to move the current line to hold space only if it first line. Exchange and print for
all the other lines. This could easily have been simply: x;p . The drawback is it gives an empty line at
the beginning because during the first exchange between the pattern space and hold space, a new
line comes to pattern space since hold space is empty.
25. Delete the line containing the pattern 'Linux', the line before, the line after:
$ sed -n '/Linux/{N;s/.*//;x;d;};x;p;${x;p;}' file | sed '/^$/d'
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With the explanations of the last 2 commands, this should be fairly simple to understand.
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Ravichander August 27, 2012 at 8:31 PM
Nice collection of commands !! Keep posting such Good articles !! :)
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James Deutl September 11, 2012 at 1:33 AM

Thank you for this great article. I will use as a reference! I have a question about number 24.
How to delete line before Linux only if it is empty or has only white spaces? Thank you again!
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Guru September 11, 2012 at 8:14 AM
This should do James:
$ sed -n '/Linux/{x;/^ *$/d;x;};1h;1!{x;p;};${x;p;}' file
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James Deutl September 11, 2012 at 5:43 PM

Thank you Guru! You are very good! I am new to Shell scripting, only been at it for a few
months. I bookmarked this article for future reference.
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Linux investigator December 14, 2012 at 2:41 AM

Excellent article!
How can I do to delete all lines between 2 parameters?
i.e.: I want to remove all lines between 'Linux' and 'AIX' from the file called 'test' and I don't
know how many lines are between tehy, so I need to use two parameters.
Thank you in advance
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Guru Prasad
December 14, 2012 at 7:20 AM
almost same as in example 17..just replace $ with /AIX/

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Anies Rahman January 20, 2013 at 4:48 AM

great article with examples Guru, appreciate it.
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Guru Prasad
January 20, 2013 at 7:18 AM
Thanks Anies
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mahesh cheemaladinne February 9, 2013 at 6:19 PM

Nice article......... can u please post commond for
how to get top 10 records and last 10 records of a file.
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Guru Prasad
February 10, 2013 at 6:03 AM
Use the head(to get top 10) and tail(to get last 10) commands for this.
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Anitha May 9, 2013 at 12:59 PM

Good examples.Can you tell me to delete a record if set of columns are null/blank.Say total
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10 columns in which 2,5,7,8 columns are coming as null/blank for some records.Those should
be removed from the file.I am using awk command but how will be the performance if millions
of records are there in a file.
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Guru Prasad
May 10, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Something like this(not tested):

awk '{if ($2 =="" && $5 == "")next}1' file
It might take a few seconds to execute it, but its ok. Whenever a file is big, just
make sure every command you use for per record processing should be justified to
be there.
For any technical questions, please post the question in our forum:
forum.theunixschool.com
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Dhruuv Sharma June 19, 2013 at 1:28 AM

Hi, Very nice read... however, I was not able to delete a line from a csv file which contained
the pattern ',Pub,Totals:, and so, on,' So i used the below command.
sed '/^,Pub,Totals:/d' $filename... any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Dhruuv
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Guru Prasad
June 19, 2013 at 6:45 AM
The command you used is correct one. However, only if your file content is
beginning with ',Pub,...', use the ^, else drop it.
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Faizah July 31, 2013 at 5:57 PM

Hi,
very good example and easy to understand. But i have a question. How to delete lines and
matched patterns between 2 patterns without deleting the second pattern? i used this:
sed '/pattern1/,/pattern/{//p;d;}' inputfile
It deleted everything between the patterns but remain the matched patterns. I want to delete
pattern1 too. appreciate your help on this.
Thanks.
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Guru Prasad
July 31, 2013 at 10:58 PM
sed '/pattern1/,/pattern/{/pattern1/d;p;}' inputfile

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Angela August 5, 2013 at 11:03 PM

It is do helpful! I wonder if there is a way to delete more than 1 line before a pattern?
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Siva August 27, 2013 at 7:36 AM

hi,
how to delete last 10 lines from a file.
thanks,
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Guru Prasad
August 27, 2013 at 10:53 PM
x=$(wc -l <file)
x=$(expr $x - 10)
sed -n "1,$x p" file
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Santiago Segarra September 4, 2013 at 3:44 AM

Hi Guru, great article. I know this might be really straightforward, but I don't seem to get the
right syntax. I want to delete the line below a pattern (not the pattern) only if it is blank (you
answered this for the line above, but I can't make it work for my case). Thank you.
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Guru Prasad
September 4, 2013 at 10:28 AM
To delete a line after the pattern if it is blank:

sed '/Unix/{n;/^$/d;}' file
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Rony September 23, 2013 at 12:07 AM

Hi
How I delele only second and fourth matching line , and replace only second an fourth
matching line.
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Anshuman September 23, 2013 at 10:46 AM

Hi
how do i Delete only the 3rd next line containing the pattern 'Unix', not the very line.
Suppose i have a file-->
tr
Ansh
Anshuman
Raj
L
M
M
N
So i want to remove only the third line after tr.
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Guru Prasad
September 23, 2013 at 9:52 PM
sed '/tr/{n;n;n;d;}' file

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Eappan Benjamin October 2, 2013 at 5:39 AM

Very good collection of sed commands!
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Achal Saxena December 3, 2013 at 1:01 AM

Hi Guru, Nice Article!
Two doubts:I have one XML having multiple header segments. I need to delete multiple segments(Part of
header) from a large XML file(around 150 MB):
The header segment consist of following segments:
Transaction-834
Internal-Properties
Segment-ST
Segment-BGN
I used the following command:
sed -e '/Transaction-834/d;/Internal-Properties/d;/Segment-ST/d;/Segment-BGN/d' Input_File
> New_File
With this command I am able to delete these multiple segments for a small XML file, but when
I am trying to delete from this huge file (150 MB size) I am getting following error: "input line
too long".
Any idea how to read and delete the segments from this huge XML file using sed or any other
command?
Also is there any limit upto which sed command is able to read the file and perform action?
Thanks in advance!
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Guru Prasad
December 3, 2013 at 10:56 PM
Older sed has these problems. Use GNU sed. Try inserting a new line character
after the long line and try once.
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Ramya December 3, 2013 at 1:45 AM
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Hi Guru,
This was so helpful. I have a quick question.
I need to match a string and delete the previous lines (not the matched line) from a CSV file.
My file would look like:
6,ZYX
0006/11262013,SLK,SLK,ABN,10:00:45.302765,19:00:00.000000,19:00:00.000000,19:00:00
.000000,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,N
7,ZYX
0007/11262013,SLK,SLK,ADI,10:00:45.302774,19:00:00.000000,19:00:00.000000,19:00:00.
000000,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,N
8,ZYX
0008/11262013,SLK,SLK,ADI,10:00:45.302780,19:00:00.000000,19:00:00.000000,19:00:00.
000000,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,N
920,ABY
4531/11262013,#DM02,SLK,KEY,10:28:36.221893,10:28:36.234889,19:00:00.000000,19:00
:00.000000,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,N
921,AAA
0110/11262013,#DM02,SLK,MDZ,10:28:36.233397,10:28:36.311391,19:00:00.000000,19:00
:00.000000,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,N
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Guru Prasad
December 3, 2013 at 10:51 PM
Looks like it is example 24.

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edy riswandi February 20, 2014 at 4:16 PM

Hi guru, i want to delete after and before character and get the number in between.
2h31m45s
5h05m44s
want to get only number 31 or 05 between h and m
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Guru Prasad
August 15, 2014 at 10:14 PM
$ echo 2h31m45s | sed -r 's/.*h([^m]+)m.*/\1/'

31
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rsantink March 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM

These are great! Is there a way to delete a pattern itself (without deleting the line it occurs
on) in a file? I have a csv file that has filenames in the third column. I need to strip off the
extension ONLY, and keep everything else. (e.g. remove .flv) from each line that has it in the
column. Thanks!
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Guru Prasad
August 15, 2014 at 10:16 PM
To just delete a pattern, check this link:

http://www.theunixschool.com/2014/08/sed-examples-remove-delete-chars-fromline-file.html
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Stephanie Broadwell March 7, 2014 at 11:20 PM

hi Guru,
I am trying to get the contents between two instances of a word.
Basically I want to delete all lines before the 3rd instance of the word "cheese" and I want to
remove all lines (including the containing one) of the 4th instance of the word cheese. So I
am left with what is in between only.
Is this possible using just sed?
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Guru Prasad
August 15, 2014 at 10:17 PM
Please post this in Q&A(tab before contact). Also give an example input file and
output expected.
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Yong Hui Yee March 11, 2014 at 10:04 PM

Hello,
How to delete line number 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24 and so on? The pattern is line number +3.
Thanks
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Guru Prasad
August 15, 2014 at 10:19 PM
To delete every 3rd line :

sed 'n;n;d' file
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Ritika Mohnot March 28, 2014 at 5:00 AM

Hi,
How do I delete all entries in a file A from another file B that contains some IDs?
For instance, file A has data like
A1 1 2 3
A2 2 3 4
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A3 3 4 5
And file B has entries like
A1
A2
How do I delete all lines from file A whereever ids match to file B?
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Guru Prasad
August 15, 2014 at 10:22 PM
awk would be better suited for this, not sed.

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Mahima Sharma May 27, 2014 at 12:20 PM

I Want to delete the record if I find a word in the fixed length(5-7). How can I do this?
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Guru Prasad
August 15, 2014 at 10:23 PM
awk is better for this. To get lines whose length is not 5:

$ awk 'length($0)!=5' file
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Priyanka Goel June 12, 2014 at 2:57 PM

How to delete a line till the time pattern is matched. This line contains pattern more than
twice.
e.g.
The main class is going to start after class 4.
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Result should be : "class is going to start after class 4."

I am using sed command : sed -e 's/.*$class.*$/\1/'
This is giving incorrect result "class 4"
Can you please share how can i get the desired result using sed.
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Guru Prasad
August 15, 2014 at 10:26 PM
$ x="The main class is going to start after class 4"

$ echo $x | sed 's/[^c]*$class.*$/\1/'
class is going to start after class 4
$
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FabriB September 19, 2014 at 7:26 PM

Hi Guru,
I need delete the line containing the pattern 'Linux', the 2 lines before and the line after
Before:
AIX
HP
Linux
Solaris
Tru64
After command:
Tru64
Can you help me?
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Sagar Auti December 4, 2014 at 11:02 AM

Nice artical Guru
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Preeti V January 23, 2015 at 4:41 AM

Hi Guru,
I have the following text in one file
pattern1
line1
line2
pattern2
line3
line4
line5
pattern1
line6
line7
pattern2
line8
line9
pattern1
line10
pattern2
I want to replace the first occurrence of the block between pattern1 and pattern2 with sometext and delete the remaining 2 occurrences of the matching block. So the output should look
like this:
some-text
line3
line4
line5
line8
line9
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Anurag Tiwary April 15, 2015 at 1:29 PM

I have a csv file which contains 65000 lines (Size approximately 28 mb). In each of the lines
certain path in the beginning is given e.g. "c:\abc\bcd\def\123\456". Now let say the path
"c:\abc\bcd\" is common in all the lines and rest of the content is different. What i have to do
is to remove the common part (In this case "c:\abc\bcd\") from all the lines.
Can any of you please help me out with this ? Also apologies in advance if i have mistakenly
not followed any of the forum rules to ask this question.
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rsantink April 18, 2015 at 6:32 PM

Anurag,
A simple sed command like the following can accomplish this. First I created a short sample
file with two matches and also one similar path starting with "d" instead of "c".
$ more inputfile
This is a sample file with heading
c:\abc\bcd\rest\of\path
c:\abc\bcd\more
d:\abc\bcd\more
d:\abc\def\ghi
My sed command:
sed 's&c:\\abc\\bcd\\&&' inputfile > outputfile
The resulting output is:
$ more outputfile
This is a sample file with heading
rest\of\path
more
d:\abc\bcd\more
d:\abc\def\ghi
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- The "&" is used as a sed delimiter to make it more readable, since your pattern includes
backslashes.
- The double backslashes "\\" are necessary since \ is used to escape special characters.
Hope this helps!
R
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Anurag Tiwary April 20, 2015 at 10:57 AM
Thanks for the help. I'll try this and get back.
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Ivan Barjaktarov September 19, 2015 at 9:29 PM

This is gold information . Thank you for sharing it with us.
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Mandar September 29, 2015 at 5:40 PM

Totally agree with Ivan's comment above.Thank you very much Guru.
I have a.txt as follows and I am looking for b.txt
Header
Page: 1
column1 column2
-------data11 data21
data12 data22
data13 data23
data14 data24
Header
Page: 2
column1 column2
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data16 data26
data17 data27
data18 data28
Header
Page: 3
column1 column2
data20 data30
Expected output b.txt
Header
Page: 1
column1 column2
data12 data22
data13 data23
data14 data24
data15 data25
data16 data26
data17 data27
data18 data28
data19 data29
data20 data30
I tried with sed '/Header/,/---/'d a.txt >b.txt
but in that process I am losing first occurance of header as well.
I wish to start above command from line 5, however I could not build one.
Tried sed '5,/Header/,/---/'d a.txt >b.txt, but its seems wrong syntax.
any inputs, help?
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Guru Prasad
September 29, 2015 at 10:59 PM
To get from 5th line, you can do like this:

sed '5,${/Header/,/- - -/d;}' a.txt
Alternatively, if the content of a.txt is something you got out of a sql query, by
adding the "set pagesize 0", automatically you will get the header only once..
Mandar February 16, 2016 at 5:12 AM

Hi Guruprasad,
I have another issue referencing same example above, only change is every input
file has Trailer info at the end appearing only once (showing the filtering/selection
criteria).
I wish to retain first header, deleting all in headers appearing on subsequent
pages. The solution provided by you perfectly works in that case. however in the
process trailer (end of report) information appearing at the end also gets removed.
Do we have any way to retain it .
Thank you very much.
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Jayanth October 16, 2015 at 10:26 PM

Hi Guru,
Help me out in this please.
i have text file abc.txt
L1137Q1 shantanu 040013.15 L Prashant .00
L134AQ1 Prashant .00 L shantanu 040013.15
i need to delete line containing pattern " Prashant" in 2nd coloumn only,
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output must be
Thank you in advance.
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Guru Prasad
October 29, 2015 at 10:48 PM
This is a typical candidate for awk:

awk '$2 !="Prashant"' file
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Amir November 6, 2015 at 1:49 AM

what is the command to find a word in a line, then deleting (that line and previous line)
example, I want to search for the word JDK, delete the JDK line and the previous line.
INPUT
------------------------Version 5.1
Version 5.1.1.12
ID BASE
Version 1.4.2
ID JDK
Version 5.1
Version 1.4.2
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ID JDK
Version 5.1.1.12
ID ND
OUTPUT
--------------------------Version 5.1
Version 5.1.1.12
ID BASE
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Guru Prasad
November 15, 2015 at 6:28 AM
Refer to example 23
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Doug Phelps November 19, 2015 at 9:26 PM

How do you "sed" out multiple particular lines?
Say I want to sed line # 10,11,16,17,38,37 and 40?
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Guru Prasad
November 22, 2015 at 9:12 AM
sed -n '10p;11p;16p;17p;' file

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Sagar Prasad January 5, 2016 at 5:13 PM

I'm facing a issue in deleting a line having 'NUL' special character.
I used the below command
sed '/^@/d' test.csv
but this is removing only the 'NUL' character and not the line it contains. Can someone help
on this.
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Unknown January 15, 2016 at 1:11 AM

23. doesn't work in ksh on AIX :( man! I really need it!
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harish January 22, 2016 at 4:18 PM

One of the best article which explains useful sed command with examples
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JT January 23, 2016 at 6:49 AM

Thanks for the examples. Could you show us how to, as a variation of 25?
Delete the line containing the pattern 'Linux', the line before, 2 lines after.
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Guru Prasad
January 25, 2016 at 11:06 PM
Along with the capital N, add another N: {N;N;s.....

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Zetzui February 2, 2016 at 9:04 PM

Hi, how do i delete the last n lines? i mean.. i have
1111
2222
3333
4444
5555
and i want to remove from 3 till the end and get this
1111
2222
Thanks in advance
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Guru Prasad
February 15, 2016 at 6:52 PM
$ y=$(wc -l<file)
$ let x=y-3+1
$ sed "$x,$y d" file
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Preeti V February 27, 2016 at 12:01 AM

Hi, how do I delete everything between two patterns, including the patterns. The start and end
of pattern could be on different lines.
E.g. if input is
start aaa end bbb ccc
aaa start bb end cc
aa bb cc
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dd start ee
ff end gg
The output should be
bbb ccc
aaa cc
aa bb cc
dd
gg
Thanks!
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Agnit Chatterjee April 10, 2016 at 7:58 PM

That was really awesome stuff I learnt today!!!! Thanks for the detailed explanation
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Hemchandra Deka August 6, 2016 at 11:55 AM

Hello, ur tutorial is really being helpfull for beginners.........
in my case i need to check every 17th col of the lines (row)in a file and if a particular
character is found (say B) i need to delete the whole line...... please help
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