Using grep and rm command in a script

[unmlobo]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to use the grep command and the rm command together. I have a .txt file that I need to edit lines from. I can grep for those lines but I need to pipe/redirect them to the rm command to get rid of them. Example:

grep word (filename) | rm

Any ideas?

Thanks a million!

 

[SteveR77]

Try this instead -

grep -v word (filename) the -v switch tells grep to return every line that does not have the value from there you can redirect the output to a file once you are sure it is what you are looking for.

grep -v word (filename) > mynewfile


HTH,

Steve

 

[unmlobo]

Thanks a million Steve. It worked perfectly! Now is there a way to get the contents sorted in alpha order. The contents of the file is created with the basic who command. No flags.

 

[aigles]

Try this :

grep -v word (filename) | sort > mynewfile

Jean Pierre.

 

[unmlobo]

Thank you both so very much! You saved me major stress.

 

[SteveR77]

Glad I could help. There are several more ways to do what you wanted but I try to keep things simple so I will not forget how I did them.




Steve

 

[PHV]

Answer to the original post:

grep word (filename) | xargs rm

Hope This Help
PH.