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Explore Stack Internal You could use sed. The following would remove lines that are 3 characters long or smaller:
sed -r '/^.{,3}$/d' filename In order to save the changes to the file in-place, supply the -i option.
If your version of sed doesn't support extended RE syntax, then you could write the same in BRE:
sed '/^.\{,3\}$/d' filename which would work with all sed variants.
You could also use awk:
awk 'length($0)>3' filename Using perl:
perl -lne 'length()>3 && print' filename You could use sed. The following would remove lines that are 3 characters long or smaller:
sed -r '/^.{,3}$/d' filename In order to save the changes to the file in-place, supply the -i option.
If your version of sed doesn't support extended RE syntax, then you could write the same in BRE:
sed '/^.\{,3\}$/d' filename which would work with all sed variants.
You could use sed. The following would remove lines that are 3 characters long or smaller:
sed -r '/^.{,3}$/d' filename In order to save the changes to the file in-place, supply the -i option.
If your version of sed doesn't support extended RE syntax, then you could write the same in BRE:
sed '/^.\{,3\}$/d' filename which would work with all sed variants.
You could also use awk:
awk 'length($0)>3' filename Using perl:
perl -lne 'length()>3 && print' filename You could use sed. The following would remove lines that are 3 characters long or smaller:
sed -r '/^.{,3}$/d' filename In order to save the changes to the file in-place, supply the -i option.
If your version of sed doesn't support extended RE syntax, then you could write the same in BRE:
sed '/^.\{,3\}$/d' filename which would work with all sed variants.
You could use sed. The following would remove lines that are 3 characters long or smaller:
sed -r '/^.{,3}$/d' filename In order to save the changes to the file in-place, supply the -i option.
You could use sed. The following would remove lines that are 3 characters long or smaller:
sed -r '/^.{,3}$/d' filename In order to save the changes to the file in-place, supply the -i option.
If your version of sed doesn't support extended RE syntax, then you could write the same in BRE:
sed '/^.\{,3\}$/d' filename which would work with all sed variants.