Steve Holden wrote: > Sebastian Busch wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> ... I would like to remove two lines from a file. ... >> ... grep -v ... > ... show ...
grep -v "`grep -v "commentsymbol" yourfile | head -2`" yourfile i frankly admit that there is also 'head' invoved ;) i really have no idea -- but i always thought that these coreutils and colleagues do their jobs as fast as possible, in particular faster than interpreted languages... however, as i posted last time, i was actually not aware that you have to call three of them. sebastian. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
