Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 02:14:49 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: grep question Message-ID: <19980903021449.A12182@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <35EDA68A.F931FA64@graphnet.com> References: <35EDA68A.F931FA64@graphnet.com>
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Roman Katsnelson wrote:
> I have a flat data file with fields that are 16 lines long, of which the
> third line is always unique. I need to be able to automate deleting
> these records.
Can't you just do
{ head -2 database.file
tail -13 database.file
} > database.tmp
? If you _always_ want to delete the third line, and they _always_ have
16 lines, that should work. Or have I misunderstood what you want to do?
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