Re: To remove some lines from a file

2006-10-25 Thread Sebastian Busch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ... I would like to remove two lines from a file.
> ...

I am quite new myself -- but wouldn't grep -v do that easier (and
perhaps faster)?

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Re: To remove some lines from a file

2006-10-25 Thread Sebastian Busch
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.

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Re: To remove some lines from a file

2006-10-26 Thread Sebastian Busch
Chetan wrote:
> 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 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. 
> 
> -Chetan

Hey!

The task is:

"Remove the first two lines that don't begin with "@" from a file."


Actually, the grep-thing I offered will also delete copies of these two
lines that occur in another place. That should be no problem if the file
is something like

@comment
deleteme
deleteme
@comment
data: x-y-dy

However, if this is not the case, it cannot be done this way.
How would you do it with sed?

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Re: where is python on linux?

2007-01-07 Thread Sebastian Busch
Frank Potter wrote:
> ... where is the executable python file? ...

does

whereis python

tell you what you want to know?
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