Deleting a line from a file

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Mit, 2014-05-14 at 21:27 +0530, Saket Sinha wrote:
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> I wanted to isolate the problem hence did not give the full context.
> Actually I have written a file-system utility which mounts my
> filesystem on a specific path and update it in /etc/fstab. When I
> umount it, I delete the path from the /etc/fstab.

I don't know if you want to do that - /etc/mtab is (historically?) used
to record actually mounted filesystems.
(At least) in the Linux world, there is /proc/mounts where the kernel
tells you exactly that.

	Bernd
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