>>>>> Brett Glass writes: > I was asked a good question today about how to do some simple tasks using > standard UNIX tools, and am curious what answers people on the list might > come up with.
> What are the simplest, most efficient ways to: > 1) Delete the Nth line from a text file? sed -e Nd <file > 2) Insert a specified line in a file after the Nth line, leaving the rest > of the text the same? sed -e 'Na\ line of text' <file > 3) Delete the first line containing a particular string? awk '{if (/string/ && i==0) i++; else print $0}'<file > 4) Insert a specified line after the first line containing a particular > string, leaving the rest of the file the same? You can infer it by yourself after 3) Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [KeyID: 400B38E9] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"