Hi Ben, you can do this second step also by hand with the editor „vi"
> b) Only use the lines which start with „Teilnehmer“. That are the lines which > contain the variable data. You must delete the > variable descriptions because the descriptions have a different character > encoding. > > grep '^Teilnehmer' a.csv > b.csv > a) open the file a.csv with vi vi a.csv b) delete lines by typing „dd“ until you see „Teilnehmer“ at the beginning of the line c) save the file and close vi by typing ESC :wq d) check the result with less a.csv _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users