How to delete lines containing a given string? — First published in fullweb.io issue #85

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How to delete lines containing a given string?

Just like last week, where we wanted to replace a string, we can use sed for this task:

sed '/pouet/d' file.txt

This will output file.txt on stdout without the lines containing pouet.

On Linux systems, you can add the -i option to delete the lines inplace. On Mac systems you can use -i .bak to also delete the lines inplace, but you need to tell how to name the backup of the original file (named file.txt.bak in this example).

I like grep -v word file.txt > file_without_word.txt

@saschalalala that works too 👍