Well I found in the Linux cookbook that the tool I need is sed and was able to find a way to cut the pieces I need.
wrong tools but now a happy camper, sorta. I want to the sed script to all the files in a directory. sed '1,5d' 425-defs.ly > 425n.ly removed the first 5 lines, which is what I really needed. but how do I put this in a script which will apply it to all files in a directory? Thanks, Aaron > I find often that I want to use standard tools to do a simple repetitive > task but can't conceptualize the way to achieve it. > > > I have 20 text files with text to delete on top and on bottom. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
