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Remove lines from a file that begin with and do not end with in bash

There are two clauses that must both be satisfied ("starts with i", "doesn't end with .conf"). For a line to be excluded from the output, each clause needs to be tested separately ...
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Remove lines from a file that begin with and do not end with in bash

It seems you have two conditionals, if line starts with 'i' and on true if line doesn't end with '.conf'. Instead of doing it in one search, do it in two. sed -i '/^i/{/\.conf$/!d}' /usr/local/choops/...
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Modifying a path

In: sed "s|"$(dirname "$var")"|.|g" "$filename" The s| and |.|g are being quoted, but the $(dirname "$var") is out of the quotes, and is therefore ...
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Modifying a path

This seems to be all you're trying to do, using any sed and assuming your variable doesn't contain any :s: $ var='/dir/dir xyz/file.txt' $ sed "s:$var:.:" file dog foo/bar . a b c d . x y z ....
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Remove lines from a file that begin with and do not end with in bash

I want to remove all lines in a file that begin with the letter "i" and DO NOT end with ".conf" Let A denote "begin with the letter i" Let B denote "end with .conf&...
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How can I replace multiple substrings from multiple lines in a file matching a pattern from a different file?

The following perl script reads in the first input file (ip_hostname.txt), and builds an associative array (hash) called %IPs, where the keys are the IP addresses and the values are the hostnames. As ...
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