On February 9, 2003 10:38 pm, you wrote: > sounds like twtest.txt has a 'Filename: ' prefix on each line, so you > may wanna insert a line like this before the sed command
I simply assumed there wouldn't be a "Filename:" string in the twpol.txt file. I know the loop gets more "expensive" this way since guaranteed half the sed calls will not do anything, but oh well it was quicker that way :) > also, if you have perl, it can edit files in place (maybe sed can too, > don't know), so the sed line could be replaced with Sed can edit files in place provided you have the latest version of sed (version 4.0.5). Use the -i option to sed to edit files in place. But not knowing what kind of distribution was used I opted to assume an old sed is still in use. -- Gerard Beekmans www.linuxfromscratch.org -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*-
