On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 07:42 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:34:10 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > > how can i delete, say, lines 8,9,and 10 from 200 files > > using sed? Is it > > > > sed '8,10d'< file> newfile > > or is there a better way? > > Use in-place editing: > > keram...@kobe:/tmp$ cat -n foo > 1 foo > 2 bar > 3 baz > keram...@kobe:/tmp$ sed -i '' -e '2d' foo > keram...@kobe:/tmp$ cat -n foo > 1 foo > 2 baz > keram...@kobe:/tmp$ > > Look at the manpage of sed for more details about the -i option, and > consider using backup files while you are running tests. In-place > editing is very cool, but it can also make changes that are difficult > to recover from. > thanks much. it works just fine in-place. ...but i did made a separate copy, just in case;-)
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