[Chicago-talk] removing line from file.

Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov
Wed Mar 9 11:41:27 PST 2005


Sorry, we were being 'cute'.   A standard script behead.pl might be:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while (<>) {
# ignore first 4 lines
     next if 1 .. 4;
# do whatever you want w/ other lines
...
# reset $. - line number for multiple files
     close ARGV if eof;

}     # while <>


so, you could do:
behead.pl file1 file2 file3

Outputting to separate files is left as AEFTR  or another email. Is this 
what you where asking?

a

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