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mjuell

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Jun 26, 2003
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Can someone help me with a command for deleting lines ending with tab ?..
 
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sed '/<tab>$/d' infile

where <tab> is a tab character.

CaKiwi
 
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hi,
do you insist on sed?
what about grep?
grep -v " $" your_file
(there has to be typed a tab in front of $)
 
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CaKiwi,
I hadn't seen your sed answer when I replied.
But you are better with sed than me!
 
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