Re: search string in column ans delete line

On 2016-03-22 12:17, Tim Chase wrote:
> 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.  
> 
>   awk -F\; '$2 !~ /[a-zA-Z]/' < in.txt > out.txt  

and of course I mean "$7" because you want to test the 7th column,
instead of the "$2" I used when testing it. :-P

-tkc