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Match Pattern and delete lines

Rahul_13 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:22:51 GMT

Hi,

I have 2 files one containing some patterns and the other file with lines having the pattern.

I need to read both the files and delete all the lines in file2 which matches the patterns in file1.

Thanks,
Rahul

Re: Match Pattern and delete lines

Sundar_7 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:28:55 GMT

file1 = file with the patterns
file2 = file with lines having the pattern

grep -vf file1 file2 > file3
mv file3 file2

Re: Match Pattern and delete lines

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:30:14 GMT

while read -r file1d
do
while read -r file2d
do
hit=0
hit=$(echo $file2d | grep $file1d)
if [ $hit -eq 0
echo $file2d >> /tmp/newfile2
else
echo "data reject
fi
done < /tmp/file2
done < /tmp/file1

Needs a tweak or two, but this approach might work.

SEP

Re: Match Pattern and delete lines

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:32:20 GMT

I believe this is something additional to your yesterday's question.
you will have to use sed for this.

cat file1 | while read pattern
do
grep -v $pattern file2 >> /tmp/file3
mv file2 file2.old
mv file3 file2
done

Hope this helps
Prashant

Re: Match Pattern and delete lines

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:57:14 GMT

While it is multiple pattern, you would like to do like following

cat file 1| while read pat1 pat2 pat3 ..
do
egrep -v "$pat1|$pat2|...$patn" file2 >> file3
..
..
..

Hope it helps
Prashant