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I have a file that I store reservation into it and I am trying to remove the old reservation and put the new reservation if the same name appears before.
does this line of code do it for me in bash?

sed -i .bak "/^$name|/d" reservation.txt

#!/bin/bash





#start by building a zenity command

ZCMD='/bin/zenity/bin/zenity --title=PA5'

name=`$ZCMD --entry --text="Enter your Name"`



cities=("Portland" "Vancouver" "Seattle" "Riyadh" "Jeddah" ""Las Vegas"" ""New York"")

departCity=`$ZCMD --entry --entry-text=${cities[@]} --text="Where are you departing from?"`



arrivalCity=`$ZCMD --entry --entry-text=${cities[@]} --text="Where are you going to?"`



departDate=`$ZCMD --calendar --text="Choose your departure dates"`

arrivalDate=`$ZCMD --calendar --text="Choose your arrival dates"`



bags=`$ZCMD --entry --entry-text=0 1 2 3 4 5 --text="How many bags are you taking?"`



#Summary of the trip info

echo "Travelers name: $name"

echo "Departure City: $departCity"

echo "Arrival City: $arrivalCity"

echo "Departing Date: $departDate"

echo "Arrival Date: $arrivalDate"

echo "Number of Bags: $bags"



echo "$name|$departCity|$arrivalCity|$departDate|$arrivalDate|$bags" >> reservation.txt

sed -i .bak "/^$name|/d" reservation.txt

The bug is that you add a reservation and then immediately remove it. You should reverse the order of the last two commands: First delete any existing reservation, then add the new one.

Maybe make sure that you use the -i option correctly -- on some platforms you cannot have a space between -i and .bak (while on others it is mandatory).