This question is really about sed not python, hence it's totally off. But since lots of unix heads are frequenting this list I thought I'd try my luck nevertheless.
If I have a file with content 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ....... i.e. each line contains simply its line number, then it's quite easy to convert it into 2 3 7 8 12 13 ........... using python. The pattern is that the first line is deleted, then 2 lines are kept, 3 lines are deleted, 2 lines are kept, 3 lines are deleted, etc, etc. But I couldn't find a way to do this with sed and since the whole operation is currently done with a bash script I'd hate to move to python just to do this simple task. What would be the sed equivalent? Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
