[ILUG] Filtering a file.

Gavin McCullagh ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie
Wed Jul 10 16:00:56 IST 2002


untested but should be close if no cigar.  Corrections welcome as always.

grep -v -A 1 --regexp='^\/XXX\/'

Gavin

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Aherne Peter-pahern02 wrote:

> /XXX/ CE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 	   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 
> /XXX/ CB 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 
> /XXX/ CE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 
> What I want to do is get any line starting with /XXX/ CE and remove
> that line and the following one. I could just write a script for this
> but I though one of you guys could come up with something a little 
> more elegant.




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