Thank Gabriel,
I ended up doing it with sed but your way worked too
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabriel Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] another Shell questionish
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Jay Strauss wrote:
>
> tar cvf new.tar `cat ListofFiles | grep -v 'statement processed'`
>
> should do it...
>
> -Gabriel
>
>
> > I have a file with list of files:
> >
> > ListOfFiles
> > ============
> > statement processed
> > file1
> > file2
> > file3
> > file4...
> >
> > I need the file of files but I want to get rid of the first line
"statement
> > processed" for
> > my tar cvf new.tar `cat ListOfFiles`
> >
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