need help on unix

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <1991Jun11.005942.22241 at unixg.ubc.ca> Frank Wang writes:
>Is that possible to delete some lines from a file (the file is so large that  
>it's impossible to use any editor) without evoking any editors?

Well "rm name" should remove a few lines.  :-)

Seriously, there are so many tools to do what you want but without knowing
the details how can anyone help?  You can use "grep -v text file" to remove
any line in file with the word "text" in it.  There are various ways to use
sed to get rid of selected lines and awk can be especially flexible.

The simplest method is just to "split" the file and edit the resulting files
separately but this involves the use of an editor which you don't want to do.
Of course that was probably just an error of defining the solution when
you really should be defining the problem.  :-)

HTH.

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