Aahz wrote: > In article <mailman.140.1234896250.11746.python-l...@python.org>, > Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: >>> Assuming this is a real task and not a homework problem, then >>> I'd do it this way: >>> >>> $ cd [directory containing 50 test files] >>> $ (for file in *; do head -n11 $file | tail -n5; done) >>> >/path/to/results-file.txt >> I'd use sed: >> >> sed -ns 7,11p /source/path/*.txt >/path/to/results.txt >> >> hard to get much more concise than that with any common tool :) > > But you do have to learn sed. Avoiding that is precisely why I stick > with Python.
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