RE:deletion

[vinay.prasad]

how to delete a word in a file using shell scripting???

[mdk69]

Hi, you can try with sed and its substitution comand:

sed -e 's/word_to_be_deleted//' my_file

the s is the name of the command,
the expression between the first an second slashes (/) is the pattern to be replaced,
the expresion between the second and the third slashes (/) is the replacement pattern (in this case nothing).

The patterns could be regular expressions.

The standard output is the console, but you can redirect the output to another file using shell redirection. (> my_file_with_word_deleted)

HTH

[Noel Lastra]

if you find sed utility command unuseful for that operation, I suggest the use of AWK if you are in the shell scripts.