http://www.wiredrevolution.com/bash-programming/delete-a-specific-line-from-a-text-file-with-sed A Bit of Linux Wisdom Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.wiredrevolution.com/bash-programming/delete-a-specific-line-from-a-text-file-with-sed/comment-page-1#comment-122 Ryan Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:47:33 +0000 http://www.wiredrevolution.com/?p=513#comment-122 Thanks for the comment. I have updated the article to answer your question. Thanks for the comment. I have updated the article to answer your question.

]]> http://www.wiredrevolution.com/bash-programming/delete-a-specific-line-from-a-text-file-with-sed/comment-page-1#comment-121 Bogdan Cristea Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:37:19 +0000 http://www.wiredrevolution.com/?p=513#comment-121 I need to used sed with already defined variables, e.g. VAR=one sed -i '/$VAR/ d' file.txt The above example will not work since $VAR is not replaced by its content before sed will evaluate the pattern. Is there a way to do this ? I need to used sed with already defined variables, e.g.
VAR=one
sed -i ‘/$VAR/ d’ file.txt
The above example will not work since $VAR is not replaced by its content before sed will evaluate the pattern.
Is there a way to do this ?

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