Re: How to use sed to remove a line from a cron file and also remove all commented lines directly above it

On 09Jul2012 21:56, Van Handel <[email protected]> wrote:
| Thanks.  I think I even understand it.  I'll try it at work tomorrow.
| This will be a general-use great tool to have for running software updates
| where the same command needs to go into a cron file with small changes, like
| a new option.
| (also fstab, log4j xml files, etc)

Um, one thing to note: the example sed script supplied may well eat the final
line of the file. You may need to pad the file with a blank line for safety. 
Test it thoroughly.

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