On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:31:08 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:27:44 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > > perl -pi.bak -e 's/OLDSTRING/NEWSTRING/g' file1 file2 fileN > > > > that i swiped somewhere. [?] > > > > last night i was up until the wee hours coding or extending > > a c++ program to assist in this stuff. while i really get > > off on hacking code, it's less of a thrill at 02:10, say:_) > > You don't need C++ for this. If you don't mind the verbosity, Python > can do the same thing with: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > import sys > > skiplines = [1, 3] # line numbers that should be skipped > lc = 0 > for l in sys.stdin.readlines(): > lc += 1 > if not (lc in skiplines): > print l, >
Interesting example. The same could be achieved using awk: awk '(NR != 1 && NR != 3)' <sourcefile> NR specifies the number of record (input line). But I still think the sed in-place editing method is the most comfortable one, allthough your example raises my interest in learning Python. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"