At 19:21 22/06/00, Lars Hecking wrote:
> I was going to post this under "Tip of the day", but then it came
> to me that others might enjoy a little food for their brain cells :)
>> The task: delete every other line in a text file. Naturally, I'm looking
> for a scriptable, small, and elegant solution. This probably excludes
> Word macros ...
perl -ne 'print if $a; $a = not $a' filename
or if you want the odd line
perl -ne 'print if not $a; $a = not $a' filename
Fergal
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