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Asked: 2026-06-01T08:26:53+00:00

I have a text file with tab delimited data spread across 16 columns. I

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I have a text file with tab delimited data spread across 16 columns.
I want to delete the complete row where the values 1260, 1068 and 907 found in 6th column.

9513    2010-06-15 17:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-15 18:00:02 \N
9523    2010-06-15 18:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-15 19:00:02 \N
9534    2010-06-15 19:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-15 20:00:02 \N
9543    2010-06-15 20:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-15 21:00:02 \N
9552    2010-06-15 21:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-15 22:00:02 \N
9560    2010-06-15 22:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-15 23:00:02 \N
9569    2010-06-15 23:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-16 00:00:02 \N
9579    2010-06-16 00:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-16 01:00:02 \N
9589    2010-06-16 01:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-16 02:00:01 \N
9599    2010-06-16 02:00:00 94  0   69  12  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2010-06-16 03:00:02 \N
95642733    2011-10-19 19:00:00 4341    0   1263    0   11  0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2011-10-19 20:05:06 \N
95642732    2011-10-19 19:00:00 4341    0   1260    0   24635   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2011-10-19 20:05:06 \N
95642540    2011-10-19 19:00:00 4050    0   1068    103 113 2   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2011-10-19 20:05:06 \N
95642539    2011-10-19 19:00:00 4050    0   907 19  0   0   0   0.0000  0   \N  \N  \N  2011-10-19 20:05:06 \N
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  1. Editorial Team

    Awk is the tool you want to use.

    awk '$6==1260 || $6==1068 || $6==907 {next} {print}'

    What does this do?

    Awk runs a block of code on each line of your file. The code starts with an expression that must evaluate true (in this case the three possible values of the 6th field), followed by commands in curly braces. In this case, the command next tells it to proceed to the next input line without running any more commands.

    If the three comparisons FAIL, and we don’t run the next, then we print the line.

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