So, basically
THIS LINE WOULD BE DELETED
and
(THIS LINE WOULD ALSO BE DELETED)
but
Indeed, THIS LINE WOULD NOT
Quite a few ways. Think negatively:
sed '/[a-z]/!d' # !x runs x if the pattern doesn't match grep -v '[a-z]' # -v means print if the regexp doesn't match awk '!/[a-z]/' # !expr negates expr
Try this:
sed '/[a-z]/!d' file