I am trying to delete any line of text that contains "$npname" and the word "in." The script works if $npname is only one word, but if it is more than one work I get "error: unterminated address regex" How can I fix this?
sed '/'$npname'.*in/d' parts.txt > parts.tmp
Why not use grep ?
sk@svn:/tmp/daniweb$ npname="part"
sk@svn:/tmp/daniweb$ egrep -vi ".*${npname}.*in.*" parts.txt
sk@svn:/tmp/daniweb$ npname="part part"
sk@svn:/tmp/daniweb$ egrep -vi ".*${npname}.*in.*" parts.txt
part1.in
part3.in
sk@svn:/tmp/daniweb$ cat parts.txt
part1.in
part part.in
part3.in
I am trying to delete any line of text that contains "$npname" and the word "in." The script works if $npname is only one word, but if it is more than one work I get "error: unterminated address regex" How can I fix this?
sed '/'$npname'.*in/d' parts.txt > parts.tmp
It makes a difference the quotation scheme.
sed "/$npname.*in/d" parts.txt > parts.tmpIt makes a difference the quotation scheme.
sed "/$npname.*in/d" parts.txt > parts.tmp
After trying everything I could think of I finally came up with this which finally worked.
sed '/'"$npname".*in'/d' parts.txt > parts.tmpThat looks strikingly similar to the code Aia provided :P
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Similar but not exactly the same. I had to move the double quotes inside, and add two sets of single quotes. Thanks for the help!
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