Question

I have a generated txt file. This file has certain lines that are superfluous, and need to be removed. Each line that requires removal has one of two string in the line; ‘ERROR’ or ‘REFERENCE’. These tokens may appear anywhere in the line. I would like to delete these lines, while retaining all other lines.

So, if the txt file looks like this:

 Good Line of data bad line of C:\Directory\ERROR\myFile.dll Another good line of data bad line: REFERENCE  Good line 

I would like the file to end up like this:

 Good Line of data Another good line of data Good line 

TIA.

Answer 1

Use the following:

type file.txt | findstr /v ERROR | findstr /v REFERENCE 

This has the advantage of using standard tools in the Windows OS, rather than having to find and install sed/awk/perl and such.

See the following transcript for it in operation:

 C:\>type file.txt Good Line of data bad line of C:\Directory\ERROR\myFile.dll Another good line of data bad line: REFERENCE Good line  C:\>type file.txt | findstr /v ERROR | findstr /v REFERENCE Good Line of data Another good line of data Good line