[Chicago-talk] removing line from file.

[Richard Reina]

That's just what I needed.  Thanks again for all the
help.

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

> 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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