Re: Deleting a line from a file

On Mit, 2014-05-14 at 21:27 +0530, Saket Sinha wrote: [...]

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 -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at