Delete lines containing a specific word

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> grep doesn't delete lines. grep matches lines. If you want to
> delete them, you still have to do the rest of the job yourself.

In which way does "grep -v mypattern myfile > myfile" not delete the
lines matching mypattern?

Regards,


Björn

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