I need to remove only lines (in text file) ending with a number.
Before:
1987 Robocop 1990 Robocop 2 1993 Robocop 3 2014 Robocop
After:
1987 Robocop 2014 Robocop
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Answer
Since you’re referencing my favorite movie, I’ll answer:
sed '/[ t][0-9][0-9]*[ t]*$/d' movies.txt
Which translates to:
Delete any line where there is either a space or a tab, followed by at least one digit, then any amount of spaces or tabs at the end of a line.
There are more compact ways to represent this on Linux, but I gave you one that does it the hard way for portability’s sake.