How could I exempt char to grep?

packets · 07-17-2007, 07:18 PM

Hi,

I have a lots of mailq in postfix. I want to create a script but the return of mailq is below:

83BE81A1872*
8797A1A1998*
8C45A1A1A72*
865D71A1A45*
845CC1A1A46*
86B7E1A1C09*

Is there a way in grep where I can remove the (*) so that I can delete the file manually?

Lsatenstein · 07-17-2007, 07:43 PM

Yes, grep -v \* ..... will skip files with asterixs

If you need to suppress the asterix, run the file through sedit with input string of \* and a replace string of null.

packets · 07-17-2007, 07:49 PM

thx for the info