Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Text Conversion and Substitution

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September 21, 2011, 10:46

I want to remove lines which having number of commas char greater than N.
counld anyone help me :( ?

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September 21, 2011, 20:25

Here is a trick to do it. Suppose N=5, then this one-liner will delete all lines with 5 commas:

sed -n '/.*,.*,.*,.*,.*,/d
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