Oracle-L: Re: Unix- How to remove the first few lines(N) in a file without

From: Ron Thomas <rthomas_at_hypercom.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:39:51 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D00F6.20030916083951@fatcity.com>

Lets not forget about the vernerable ed...

#
# strip of the header of the input file
#

ed $data_filename <<EOF
1,5d
w
q
EOF
#

Ron Thomas
Hypercom, Inc
rthomas_at_hypercom.com
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                      tanel.poder.003_at_m                                                                                                          
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Afaik, vi can run in non-interactive, "batch" mode too. But I'd go with tail +6

Tanel.

Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:49 PM

> Mladen ,I want to automate this thing. So don't want
> to go with :1,5d stuff
>
> --- Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_adelphia.net> wrote:
> > The best thing to do would be something like:
> > vi filename
> > :1,5d
> > :x!
> >
> > That would do the trick.
> > Also this:
> >
>

*
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > use strict
> > my $ind=1;
> > open FILE1,"/file1/path"||die "Cannot open
> > file1:$!\n";
> > open FILE2,">/file2/path"||die "Cannot open
> > file2:$!\n";
> >
> > # Skip 5 lines
> >
> > for($ind=1;$ind<=5;$ind++) { <FILE1>; }
> >
> > # copy files
> > while (<FILE1>) { print FILE2 $_; }
> > print "I'm all done\n";
> >
>

> >
> > On 2003.09.14 12:14, Tim Gorman wrote:
> > > sed '6,$p' filename > new-filename
> > >
> > > on 9/14/03 7:49 AM, Oracle DBA at
> > sami_resume_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi List,
> > > >
> > > > I want to remove the first 5 lines of the text
> > from
> > > > unix text file. Is there a command to do it
> > without
> > > > opening a file manually? (I don't want to use
> > (DD
> > > > command)
> > > >
> > > > For example,
> > > > ==============
> > > > 1 to be removed
> > > > 2 to be removed
> > > > 3 to be removed
> > > > 4 to be removed
> > > > 5 to be removed
> > > > aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> > > > sssssssssssssssss
> > > > eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
> > > > ==============
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be really appreciated.
> > > > TIA
> > > > Sami
> > > >
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