On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:31:08 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
<keram...@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:27:44 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> > perl -pi.bak -e 's/OLDSTRING/NEWSTRING/g' file1 file2 fileN
> >
> > that i swiped somewhere. [?]
> >
> > last night i was up until the wee hours coding or extending
> > a c++ program to assist in this stuff. while i really get
> > off on hacking code, it's less of a thrill at 02:10, say:_)
>
> You don't need C++ for this. If you don't mind the verbosity, Python
> can do the same thing with:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import sys
>
> skiplines = [1, 3] # line numbers that should be skipped
> lc = 0
> for l in sys.stdin.readlines():
> lc += 1
> if not (lc in skiplines):
> print l,
>
Interesting example. The same could be achieved using awk:
awk '(NR != 1 && NR != 3)' <sourcefile>
NR specifies the number of record (input line). But I still
think the sed in-place editing method is the most comfortable
one, allthough your example raises my interest in learning Python.
--
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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