Using sed to remove unwanted lines

I have written about sed's utility before as well and it has impressed me time and again by the amount of time it saves. Recently while testing E17, I generated backtraces using GNU debugger. However, the file to which I redirected the backtrace contained a large number of lines about reading and loading symbols. I wanted to quickly get rid of those lines so that the developers can directly view the backtrace instead of scrolling down pages before the actual backtrace. So I decided to use sed for the purpose. The approach I took to achieve my desired result was as follows:

1. I wanted to deletes lines that mentioned about loading or reading symbols. So, the sed operation I required was delete matching lines.
2. I wanted to edit the files. So, I turned the edit in-place option on.

With this approach in mind, I ran the following two lines and the file was formatted properly.

sed -i '/Reading symbols/d' my_file

sed -i '/Loaded symbols/d' my_file

N.B.: If you want to test the output, remove the -i option.