On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, June 7, 2012 11:49:02 AM UTC-5, Dominique Pelle wrote: >> Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> > forgett about vim, on linux just do: >> > tail -n +10 file.sql | head -n +10 > trimmed.sql >> >> Many people posted solutions with head and tail that don't work. >> > > Just curious...I've never used head or tail. But why won't they > work in this situation? This seems like exactly what they're > meant to accomplish; retrieving only a specific part of a file.
Because tail outputs the last n lines of a file, but what user wanted is to remove the last lines. So unless you know the number of lines, you can't use tail. But perhaps someone can prove me wrong. -- Dominique -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
