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Old 04-25-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is online now Forum Staff  
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sed or awk are good choices - here is sed:

Code:
for file in  `ls *.txtdatafile`
do
      sed '7,8d' $file > tmp.tmp
      mv tmp.tmp $file
done