Sebastian Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. I don't have the original post to know exactly what is needed, but looks like something that can be done by a single sed script.
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