Re: help

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From: Phil Reynolds
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 00:00

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In article <K8sH4.767$5D.1658@ozemail.com.au>,
	"David" <dschmidt1@ozemail.com.au> writes:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm writing a script file and need to know how to remove a specific line of
> text from a .txt file.
> 
> I can use        grep $variable filename        to get it but how can I
> remove that line?

One way would be to do this:

grep -v $variable filename > newfile

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