another possibility:

	sed -e "/pattern/d"

exact functionality to grep -v.

marc

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:26:05 +0100 (BST)
> From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
> To: John Maier <jmaier@midamerica.net>
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: sed \n question
> 
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, John Maier wrote:
> 
> > I'm having trouble getting sed to see \n
> >
> > I'm trying to write a script to delete specific lines from a file, i.e.:
> > sed -e 's|'$1' yes\n||g' < /etc/ftpchroot > /etc/ftpchroot.new
> >
> > But it doesn't seem to interpret the \n as a newline character, in the
> > search expression.
> >
> > If I remove the \n from the above expression, it works, but a blank line is
> > left in the text file.
> >
> > Ideas?
> 
>         a) Use \\n
>         b) Use "sed -e '/^'$1' yes$/d' ..."
>         c) Use "grep -v"
> 
> 
>                 David/absolute
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