[Nottingham] Stripping lines out of a text file
Martin Garton
martin at stupids.org
Thu Mar 13 16:17:59 GMT 2008
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:04 +0000, JJSH wrote:
> "Size", "EDM", "Material", "Date", "Client".
>
> Can anyone think of a way I can strip out all of the lines that don't
> begin with one of the above, other than tediously going through it
> manually (some of the files are huge)? The remaining data needs to be
> kept in sequence.
Something like:
egrep "^((Size)|(EDM)|(Material)|(Date)|(Client))" file.txt
should give you what you need. (NB: not tested, and I seem to mess up
regexps most of the time these days)
--
Martin.
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