[NTLUG:Discuss] Quickest way to edit file?

[Wayne Walker]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:33:35PM -0500, David Stanaway wrote:
> Bah
> 
> the fastest is surely
> 
> sed -i /bad at address/d file
sed -i -e /^bad at address/d file

sed is Sweet :)  Very good for deleting lines in huge files.  I use sed when I need to extract a few hundred (thousand) lines from anything over 100 Meg.

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