Re: search string in column ans delete line

On 2016-03-22 16:19, MOKRANI Rachid wrote:
> Do you have a simple proposal with sed / awk.
> 
> if I find alphabetic characters (a-z A-Z) in column 7 I want to
> delete the line.

sounds like you want something like

  awk -F\; '$2 !~ /[a-zA-Z]/' < in.txt > out.txt

Though you'll hit a snag if any of the quoted fields can contain a
delimiting ";" character.

-tkc