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sed: Remove lines that match a pattern


sed  '/mypattern/d' file


Deletes all files that contain the regular expression “mypattern”.

In-place replacement:

sed --in-place '/mypattern/d' file1


sed also supports making backups with e.g. –in-place=.backup .

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