Sed question

Bertram Scharpf lists at bertram-scharpf.de
Sun Dec 21 14:20:11 UTC 2008


Hi,

Am Sonntag, 21. Dez 2008, 02:08:04 -0800 schrieb Gary Kline:
> On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 07:42 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:34:10 -0800, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > sed '8,10d'< file> newfile
> > > or is there a better way?
> > 
> >   keramida at kobe:/tmp$ sed -i '' -e '2d' foo
> > 
> thanks much.  it works just fine in-place.  ...but i did made a separate
> copy, just in case;-)

To make a copy, call

  $ sed -i .bak 8,10d myfile

Be aware that the -i option is not portable. -> man sed /^STANDARDS

Consider Perl or

  $ ruby -i.bak -pe 'next if 8..10 === $.' x

Bertram


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