Deleting lines with batch files

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Deleting lines with batch files

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Name: Tizian
Date: September 14, 2005 at 07:54:01 Pacific
Subject: Deleting lines with batch files
OS: Windows XP: SP 2
CPU/Ram: 512

Comment:

I want to do a (preferably) batch file, that searches for a certain string in a file and deletes the line its at.
So if for example the file consists of:
multi square john 3323
single square johnp 3512
single square peter 5100
Single square jonna 2211
and the string to find was john, it would delete both lines involving something with john.
Thank you in advance
Philip Munksgaard

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Response Number 1

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: September 14, 2005 at 08:12:07 Pacific
Subject: Deleting lines with batch files

Reply: (edit)

find /v "john" < oldfile > newfile

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2

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