[R] lines those not started with "rs"

Robert Sherry rsherry8 at comcast.net
Mon Jan 30 15:36:45 CET 2017


Greg,

I am assuming that your data is in a text file. R is a good tool but not 
the tool I would use for this job. The tool I would
use is grep. The following command should get you want you want:
          grep -v "^rs" <data file name>

Bob

On 1/30/2017 9:23 AM, greg holly wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I have a file which has about 3.000.000 lines. Most of the lines at first
> column start with "rs", for example, rs10000056, rs10000076 and so on. I
> would like to get the lines which do not start with "rs" . Your helps
> highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
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