Steven D'Aprano wrote: > grep doesn't delete lines. grep matches lines. If you want to > delete them, you still have to do the rest of the job yourself.
In which way does "grep -v mypattern myfile > myfile" not delete the lines matching mypattern? Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #184: loop found in loop in redundant loopback -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list