The sed command to delete lines in range doesn't work
Question
i saw online that we can use sed to delete lines in a range within a file but it doesn't work, why?
sed '1,39192d' file
that command should delete lines from 1 to 39192 in that file (my file contains 259k lines)
1 answers
solution1
0 2022-09-06 09:56:44
You need "-i" (--in-place) flag:
sed '1,39192d' -i file
But be careful this will change the file.
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