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Hello is posible to make a bash script to remove line from onther file?
for example i have file:

/bin/example
example with lines
go to one
go to two
go to threee

how can i build a script to search in /bin/example and remove line two or three?

thank you!

The 'sed' command may be a good place to start. There are lots of options for search/replace and removing text selectively. Here's an example:



Here's a great page with some sed one-liners and what they do:

http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt

There's also a flag to edit the file in-place instead of just printing the output to the console. The man page, combined with that page linked above, should help you out a lot!

Hope this helps!
-Jeo

If you wanted to go by line numbers, rather than text matching, you can do that with sed as well. I think you can also use awk for that.

[quote="jeo"]The 'sed' command may be a good place to start. There are lots of options for search/replace and removing text selectively. Here's an example:



that is a good ideea but , he is not removing the line two , if i look into example line is still there, i need it to be remove from file .i made a script to block a ip into firewall rules , and i whant to make one to be removed also but how to remove a line from a file? this is my problem.

Hi redrack!

To remove it from the file, you'll need to use the -i flag ( "i" is for "in-place" )

# sed -i '/this.is.line.four/d' /tmp/example

Hope that helps!
-Jeo

yeah now works thanks a lot