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title: "Deleting Specific Lines in a File with sed or yq"
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date: 2023-07-28
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  - linux
  - thought
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sed can be a tricky beast, I often stumble when trying to pipe into it.  Next time I need to use sed, I should reference this article by Nick Janetakis.  He makes it looks much easier than my experience has been, and it appears to behave like a vim `:%s/` substitution does, or a `g/` g command.