[Chicago-talk] removing line from file.

[Richard Reina]

Andy,

In the context of a bigger program what do I need to
do to get that to work?

I tried: 

next if 1 .. 4; print'  file > beheaded_file

do I need to use and open?

--- Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov wrote:

> perl -ne 'next if 1 .. 4; print'  file >
> beheaded_file
> 
> using "if x .. y" falls back to using $. (current
> line number).
> 
> a
> 
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