How to remove a whole line if matches a keyword in a file.

Rahul2772 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to remove a line in the file if it matches with a "Keyword" through a script.

Script is taking an input file and writing in modified output file i need to add a snippet of code so that if a keyword match it will skip that line and jump to further line.

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Re: How to remove a whole line if matches a keyword in a file. by QuillMeantTen (Friar) on Aug 22, 2016 at 10:42 UTC
Greetings, First thing first, have you tried anything? Do you have any running code that copy one file into another line by line? The following snippet could do the trick, BUT you should understand what each line does: Read more... (911 Bytes)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to remove a whole line if matches a keyword in a file. by Laurent_R (Canon) on Aug 22, 2016 at 12:58 UTC
You might want to try this one-liner: `$ echo 'foo > bar > foobar > baz > foobar' \| perl -ne 'print unless /^bar/;' foo foobar baz foobar` [download] The output might be redirected to a file if needed.	[reply] [d/l]