On 2012-06-07, Dominique Pellé wrote: > Marc Weber wrote: > > > forgett about vim, on linux just do: > > tail -n +10 file.sql | head -n +10 > trimmed.sql > > Many people posted solutions with head and tail that don't work. > > Here is one that works: > > $ sed 1,10d < input.txt | tac | sed 1,10d | tac > output.txt
Are you sure that tac works in this case? I thought that tac pushed all the input lines onto a stack in memory, then popped each line as it was output. That means having to put the entire file into memory, which we were trying to avoid. Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
