On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 03:03:08PM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote:
> Thanks!
> I want that the output will be be not the console, as it is by your
> offer, but to the same file.
> Namely , running the script on input.txt will delete a line in that
> file so that after running the script,input.txt will be the same but
> without line 5.
>
> It can be done by two lines following your suggestion thus:
>
> awk -v line_num=5 '{if(NR == line_num){next;} print $0;}' < input.txt
> > output.txt
>
> mv output.txt input.txt
perl -ni -e 'print unless ($. == 5)' file_that_had_line_5.txt
But this is cheating :-)
See also s2p(1).
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