[ILUG] A little contest

[Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]

Very interesting slip of the tongue below "(and I had to admin,"

anyway heres a sed thingy:

sed -n 1~2p filename

to alternate lines just use sed -n 2~2p filename
this is fun, should be one every Friday.

sed steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T [mailto:Gary.Burke at guinness.com]
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:49 PM
To: 'Lars Hecking'; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] A little contest


] 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 ...

Having seen everyone elses entries (and I had to admin, I would never have
come up with any of them, mainly cos I don't use PERL or sed all that much
(or awk)), I'm curious to know what Lars's 'tip of the day' was going to be?
Does Lars have an even better way of doing it?



Gary

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