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Jeff Severns Guntzel
Jeff Severns Guntzel

Reputation: 657

Deleting multiple lines from a csv file using sed

I am just learning to work with csv files from the command line. I want to delete several lines from a file using sed. I've removed the header of a file with this cat file.csv | sed 1,2d > file.csv.

Now I want to delete several more lines from the file (lines 3, 10, 12, and 28-35) and I am not sure how to pull it off. I'd be grateful for any help.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3968

Answers (2)

Mark Wilkins
Mark Wilkins

Reputation: 41232

Depending on the sed implementation, you could separate them as follows:

cat file.csv | sed "1,2d;10d;12d;28,35d" > file2.csv

Upvotes: 4

rob mayoff
rob mayoff

Reputation: 385500

Use the -e flag to pass several commands to one sed invocation, like this:

seq 1 40 | sed -e 1,2d -e 3d -e 10d -e 12d -e 28,35d

Upvotes: 2

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