On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:42:01 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> If you want to delete them, you still have to do the rest of the job >> yourself. > > Nonsense. > > How is this not doing what the OP asks? > > grep -v pattern infile >outfile; mv outfile infile
It isn't deleting lines. As abstractions go, it comes pretty close, but just try it on a disk with insufficient free space for the temporary outfile and watch it break. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
