On Jan 6, 3:33 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > grep doesn't delete lines. grep matches lines. If you want to > > delete them, you still have to do the rest of the job yourself. > > In which way does "grep -v mypattern myfile > myfile" not delete the > lines matching mypattern? > > Regards, > > Björn > > -- > BOFH excuse #184: > > loop found in loop in redundant loopback
If you do that, you'll find an empty file at the end. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
