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in reply to Re: Re^2: sed (was: Save all but line 32!)
in thread Save all but line 32!

It's 10 actually, I can leave out a space. sed -e32d filename Also, yours is 12 keystrokes. And once we get to multiple files, yours grows linearly, mine is constant.. :^) for F in *;do sed -e32d "$F";done (NB: a loop is necessary since we'll otherwise only delete the 32nd line of the first file.)

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Re: Re^4: sed
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 20, 2002 at 13:16 UTC

    Also, yours is 12 keystrokes.

    No. <^somechar> is meant to indicate that I need to type control+G. Ie. a single control key.

    Fair play to you on the multiple files though:)


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Re: Re^4: sed
by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 20, 2002 at 17:48 UTC
    It's 10 actually, I can leave out a space.
    sed -e32d filename
    And in all of the sed implementations I've seen so far, you can leave out the '-e' since the first argument (when there's no -e) is by default assumed to be the sed script.
      Works indeed. So 8 characters for the sed way.. :-) ++

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